Humor 9/12/99: Who's Driving & Does God Speak To Us?

Hi everyone,

I went to my friends Ed Chow & Janice Kishi's wedding on Saturday.
Congratulations! One cool and unique thing about their wedding is that
on their wedding program, they wrote a sentence or two about how much
they appreciated the great times and memories they had with each
bridesmaid and groomsmen.

As you know, I will be leaving the San Francisco bay area this coming
Saturday and returning to LA. Once my phone number is set, I will send
out an email to everyone with my address and phone number.

Do any of you want to go to Disneyland? I bought an annual pass, but I
haven't used it since I went the first time. Disneyland has this
special where I can bring in 4 people for $29 each. Do any of you want
to go on Saturday, September 25th? If so, please let me know. I'm also
open to going on a weekday, since I have some time before classes start.

This week's thought provoking question is: "If you could be invisible
for one hour, where would you go and what would you do?"

This week's humor was forwarded by Reiko Muto, followed by an
inspirational story forwarded through the UCLA IVGCF list. Enjoy!

-Josh.
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Two elderly women were out driving in a large car, both could barely see
over the dashboard. As they were cruising along they came to an
intersection. The stoplight was red but they just went on through.

The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself, "I must be losing my
mind, I swear we just went through a red light."

After a few more minutes they came to another intersection and the light
was red again, and again they went right through. This time the woman in
the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red, but was
really concerned that she was mistaken.

She was getting nervous and decided to pay very close attention to the
road and the next intersection to see what was going on.

At the next intersection, sure enough, the light was definitely red and
they went right through. She turned to woman driving and said,
"Mildred! Did you know we just ran through three red lights in a row!
You could have killed us!"

Mildred turned to her and said, "Oh, am I driving?"
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Does God Still Speak To Us?

A young man had been to Wednesday night Bible Study. The Pastor had
shared about listening to God and obeying the Lord's voice. The young
man couldn't help but wonder, "Does God still speak to people?" After
service he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and they
discussed the message. Several different people talked about how God
had led them in different ways. It was about ten o'clock when the young
man started driving home. Sitting in his car, he just began to pray,
"God... If you still speak to people speak to me. I will listen. I
will do my best to obey."

As he drove down the main street of his town, he had the strangest
thought, stop and buy a gallon of milk. He shook his head and said out
loud, "God is that you?" He didn't get a reply and started on toward
home. But again, the thought, buy a gallon of milk. The young man
thought about Samuel and how he didn't recognize the voice of God, and
how little Samuel ran to Eli.

"Okay, God, in case that is you, I will buy the milk."

It didn't seem like too hard a test of obedience. He could always use
the milk. He stopped and purchased the gallon of milk and started off
toward home. As he passed Seventh street, he again felt the urge, "Turn
down that street."

This is crazy, he thought and drove on past the intersection. Again, he
felt that he should turn down Seventh street. At the next intersection,
he turned back and headed down Seventh. Half jokingly, he said out
loud, "Okay, God, I will". He drove several blocks, when suddenly, he
felt like he should stop. He pulled over to the curb and looked
around. He was in semi-commercial area of town. It wasn't the best but
it wasn't the worst of neighborhoods either. The businesses were closed
and most of the houses looked dark like the people were already in bed.

Again, he sensed something,

"Go and give the milk to the people in the house across the street."

The young man looked at the house. It was dark and it looked like the
people were either gone or they were already asleep. He started to open
the door and then sat back in the car seat.

"Lord, this is insane. Those people are asleep and if I wake them up,
they are going to be mad and I will look stupid." Again, he felt like
he should go and give the milk. Finally, he opened the door, "Okay God,
if this is you, I will go to the door and I will give them the milk. If
you want me to look like a crazy person, okay. I want to be obedient. I
guess that will count for something but if they don't answer right away,
I am out of here."

He walked across the street and rang the bell. He could hear some noise
inside. A man's voice yelled out,

"Who is it? What do you want?"

Then the door opened before the young man could get away. The man was
standing there in his jeans and tee-shirt. He looked like he just got
out of bed. He had a strange look on his face and he didn't seem too
happy to have some stranger standing on his doorstep.

"What is it?"

The young man thrust out the gallon of milk, "Here, I brought this to
you."

The man took the milk and rushed down a hall way speaking loudly in
Spanish. Then from down the hall came a woman carrying the milk toward
the kitchen. The man was following her holding a baby. The baby was
crying. The man had tears streaming down his face.

The man began speaking and half crying, "We were just praying. We had
some big bills this month and we ran out of money. We didn't have any
milk for our baby. I was just praying and asking God to show me how to
get some milk."

His wife in the kitchen yelled out, "I asked him to send an Angel with
some... Are you an Angel?"

The young man reached into his wallet and pulled out all the money he
had on him and put in the man's hand. He turned and walked back toward
his car and the tears were streaming down his face. He knew that God
still answers prayers.
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Joshua Li
420 James Road #1
Palo Alto CA 94306
(650)565-8674
Permanent Email: joshli@post.harvard.edu
http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/joshua.li/