Random Thoughts

[Rev. Rye]

Here's a parable I came up with last night:

Once, a man walked in on a pastor listening wistfully to a tape that was saying something in German. The man asked the pastor "what are you listening to?" He turned it off and told him "When I was a young lad, I met a mystic who claimed he found the meaning of life. I asked him to tell me, but he insisted on saying it in German. He said no other language could do it justice. So, I recorded him telling me. I don't speak German, but sometimes, I listen to it and I feel God washing over me."

"What does it mean?" the man asked, but the pastor said "I don't speak German, I don't know how to copy tapes, and I was afraid that if I sent it off to a German speaker to translate it, I'd never get it back, so I don't really know." So, he played it again and recorded it on his phone. He sent the file to Frau Schultz, a German teacher at a local community college. She was shocked when she listened to it, and she was reluctant to transcribe the whole thing, but she did send him the first two sentences: "So, this family walks into a talent agency. It's a mother, father, son, daughter, baby, and their Chocolate Lab."