A ROCKY FOUNDATION

                                  A patient was in the doctor’s office for his annual check up. As part of the exam the doctor looked in his eyes. Noticing how serious his astigmatism was, he said half jokingly to him “you are about blind, man. You better get your prescription for your glasses checked on to make sure it is up to date. So he made an appointment to see his ophthalmologist. The doctor had him sit in the chair, take off the glasses and read the chart at the end of the room. If you have been to the doctor’s office and read the chart a few times you know you can squint and fake your way through at least part of the test. The doctor asked him “can you read the top letter? Yes he said “it is an A. Can you read the next row down? Yes it says CZY. Can you read the next row? Yes I think it reads KNSCV. Finally the doctor said “OK...

                                           One afternoon we were scheduled to do a concert outside of Wellworth department store in downtown London. The weather looked menacing, but we knew the Lord wanted us there. We prayed that there would be no rain and expected a miracle. As we arrived at Wellworth, the menacing sky menaced more; it broke out into a thunderous downpour. We felt quite letdown by God. Hadn’t we prayed in faith? Hadn’t we gone there at the risk of our lives to serve him? At the last moment our guide found another venue, a store around the corner where we could set up and sing, even with the pounding rain. Then in the middle of our concert BOOM! A bomb had gone off right in the door next to Wellworth, the place where we would have been had the Lord granted our request ( Ed Vasicek ,2010 )   lo After serving 14 years for his two wives, Jacob approached ...

  A man who was desperate for work applied to a zoo that he had heard had some openings. ‘Well, it’s a little unusual but I have something” said the zoo director, “our gorilla died sometimes ago and we haven’t had the money to replace him. If you are willing to wear a monkey suit and impersonate an ape, you’ve got the job.” It didn’t feel terribly authentic but the man figured a job is a job so he signed on. After a few awkward days he began to get into the spirit of the thing and soon he became one of the zoo’s prime attractions. One morning he was swinging from one vine to the next with a little too much animation and inadvertently swung himself right over the wall into the next cage.   The cage was occupied by an enormous African lion. The man could feel the lion’s hot breath on his face. He knew he was a goner. Reflexively he began to scream for help, when suddenly the lion whispered urgently to him “shut up, you idiot, or we’ll both be out of job” (John Orberg 2003) I...