When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Ya-hoo! We’re rich! But it turned out to be something different.

-Jack Handey

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I received this email today:

THIS IS BEYOND BEAUTIFUL!

One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick. Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen, spoke up from her relaxed position in her seat. “Dad, I’m thinking of something.” This announcement usually meant she had been pondering some fact for a while, and was now ready to expound all that her six-year-old mind had discovered. I was eager to hear.

“What are you thinking?” I asked.

“The rain!” she began, “is like sin, and the windshield
wipers are like God wiping our sins away.”

After the chill bumps raced up my arms I was able to respond.

“That’s really good, Aspen.”

Then my curiosity broke in. How far would this little girl take this revelation? So I asked… “Do you notice how the rain keeps on coming? What does that tell you?”

Aspen didn’t hesitate one moment with her answer:

“We keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us.”

I will always remember this whenever I turn my wipers on. Isn’t it distressing to know that when you forward this message you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

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Damn! Analogies are the cruelest thing a person can do to me!!! My brain just won’t stop!

…if sins are like raindrops and God is the windshield wipers, what the hell are those little sins in that little ’shark fin’ area at the bottom of my windshield? Why doesn’t God forgive them?

…does that make me a windshield?

…what about the squeegee at the gas station, is that also God? Because, frankly, it does a much better job.

…what about when God gets old and brittle? You know, when we have to replace him, but haven’t yet? He’s not actually forgiving our sins really well, just kinda smearing them around.

…and when we do go to replace God, does it matter if we buy the discount Wal-Mart $3.99 forgiveness, or should we just fork out the full $12.99 for name-brand forgiveness?

…why is God in two different sizes these days for driver’s and passenger side forgiveness?

…come to think of it… why are there so many styles of God, depending on the make and model of your windshield, you have to buy a specific kind of God. Is this kid using Thomas Kincaid to endorse polytheism? The little heretic brat!!