A Commandment Interrupted!

Yesterday afternoon Beauty and I intended to obey one of God’s happy commandments — but we kept getting interrupted.

Darn!

Every time we’d begin to get started, somebody would knock at our door bringing us a belated Christmas present, wishing us well, or being a pest in some other way.

They’d no sooner go away than the phone would ring and somebody would wish us happy New Year or some such aggravating nonsense.

I need fewer friends!

The ones we already have prevented us from following the commandment. And at our age and present state of health that is annoying in the extreme.

So I cleaned the swimming pool and watched tv football all afternoon instead.

Bummer.

Oh, the commandment?

I refer to Proverbs 5:18-19.

You mean you don’t know about that one?

Really, I think folks would be much happier if they read their Bibles more.

The commandment of God in Proverbs says:

“Rejoice with the wife of thy youth! Let her be to thee as a loving hind, a pleasant roe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times. Yea, be thou ravished with her love”.

But sometimes it is difficult to follow the commands of God.

I think we need fewer friends.