Repaint And Thin No More!

[Boon Mee]

It seems that there was a little old church out in the countryside:

picturesque with it's painted white clapboards and high steeple.

One Sunday, the pastor noticed that his church's paint was getting a bit

shabby and peeling. He checked out the Sunday ads and found a paint sale at

the local hardware store, and the next day, he went into town and bought

three gallons of white latex, then went back to the church and began the job.

Having completed the first side, he stood back and admired his work. It was

looking great. But he noticed that he had already used over one gallon. He

didn't want to go all the way back into town, so he figured that if he just

thinned the paint a little, it might last long enough to finish the other

three sides. So he added a gallon of water to each of the remaining gallons, and continued painting.

It worked out great. He finished the last three sides with the remaining paint.

That night, it rained: and it rained HARD. The next morning when he stepped

outside of the parsonage to admire his work, he saw that the first side was

still looking great, but that the paint on the other three sides had washed away.

The pastor looked up in sky in anguish and cried out, "LORD, What shall I do?"

A voice came back from the heavens saying,

"Repaint, and thin no more!"

Edited October 26, 2005 by Boon Mee