For Lectionary 25, Pentecost 14, September 18, two video offerings both dealing with God’s apparent sense of humor. God was more of a prankster in the Old Testament: Take poor Jonah, that most reluctant prophet whom God drags to Nineveh to preach repentance. It is divine comedy at its best. The video features Drift’n Slim and His Blues Band telling the story and Mrs. Harkin’s Fourth Grade Class animation project for the pictures. Who is Mrs. Harkin and where is her fourth grade class? Wolfie has no idea. Found it surfing through You Tube.
Driftin’ Slim was an African American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. Born Elmon Mickle in Keo, Arkansas, he not only recorded as Driftin’ Slim, but also as Model ‘T’ Slim and under his real name. By the turn of the 1970s, ill health had forced Slim to retire from the music industry and when he died, a chapter of American music — that of the one-man band — had virtually died with him. Slim died in Los Angeles, California, in September 1977.
For a change of pace we will begin using the narrative lectionary, and for those other congregations that might be doing the same, Sarah Laughed is a video featuring, you guessed it, lots of laughing. Mary Poppins’ music “I Love to Laugh” is the backdrop for just a whole bunch of giggles, guffaws and roll on the floor laughing, some of it from a group laugh therapy session, in which people laugh for the hell heck of it. (Some might not find that funny.) Sarah gets it. She nearly died laughing when told she would have a baby at a hundred. What are you laughing about these days? Not laughing much? Better watch this:
Isaac, by the way is the Hebrew word for “he who laughs”. Wolfie would be smiling like a butcher’s dog if you might consider paying $15 for these videos if used in worship. You can do this at sacredsegues.com.
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