JEST FOR FUN

During a Sunday-morning worship service, a mother tried everything she could think of˜including rewards, scoldings, and threats˜to get her fidgety 7-year-old to be quiet. Nothing worked. Finally, about halfway through the sermon, she leaned over and whispered something in the little boy's ear. He immediately stopped fidgeting and sat quietly for the rest of the service. Afterward a friend sitting in the row behind asked the young mother what she had said to her son. The mother smiled slyly and replied, "If you don't be quiet, the preacher is going to lose his place, and then he'll have to start his sermon all over again."