Read Leaping Off the Page: Any Time of the Year Edition Page 9

  FOUL!

  A Sketch

  Two people - men or women. Bert or Beth, Arnie or Annie. We are in Bert’s house. The door bell rings. Bert answers the door.

  Bert: (Opening the door) Hi, Arnie, what’s up?

  Arnie: (Entering) You’re dressed up awfully spiffy! (The tone is accusatory)

  Bert: (Grinning) I like to think so!

  Arnie: I thought we could do a little golf today.

  Bert: Yeah, it’s a pity we had to cancel our game yesterday.

  Arnie: So much for the weather channel. They predicted “sunny with a small chance of rain”.

  Bert: Instead we got “rainy with a small chance of sun”!

  Arnie: So how about that game today? Not a cloud in the sky.

  Bert: Can’t. I’m tied up.

  Arnie: Don’t see any ropes.

  Bert: (Chuckles) It’s Sunday morning.

  Arnie: And a perfect day.

  Bert: It is a perfect day, isn’t it?

  Arnie: So how about it? (Swings an imaginary golf club)

  Bert: I’m going to church.

  Arnie: But you go every week!

  Bert: Guilty as charged.

  Arnie: Surely you can skip church one week when the weather’s as glorious as this! There won’t be many more chances like this before winter hits.

  Bert: Well, I made two decisions when I realized that God would stick by me through fair weather and foul.

  Arnie: Yeah? What two decisions?

  Bert: One — that I wouldn’t be a fair weather Christian.

  Arnie: I’ve heard of fair weather friends. What’s a fair weather Christian?

  Bert: Someone who trusts God only when things are going well. As soon as a trial hits, their faith hits the dirt.

  Arnie: Okay, okay. I hate to ask, but what was the second decision?

  Bert: That I wouldn’t be just a foul weather church-goer!

  Curtain

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