“Ask and You will Receive the Answer”
There
was a Scottish painter named Smokey Macgregor who was very interested
in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to
make it go a wee bit further.
As it
happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the
Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one
of their biggest buildings.
Smokey
put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he
set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying
the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with
turpentine.
Well, Smokey was up on the
scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly
there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain
poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and
knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the
gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless
paint.
Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a
judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried, "Oh,
God, oh God, forgive me; what should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke:
"Repaint! Repaint!
