Post by whitefang on Dec 11, 2019 10:57:35 GMT -5
I think DBM might recall this from another forum...
Unlike the anecdote for Thanksgiving, this actually happened....
It was back in the latter '70's. My ex's older sister was teaching Sunday school. And on one Sunday, in a year in which Christmas day was the following Tuesday, she knew that the kids would be so anxious about Christmas that getting them to pay attention to a bible story would be difficult. So she handed out sheets of plain drawing paper and placed a bucket of crayons on each table and asked the kids to draw a picture of what Christmas makes them think of.
After a half hour, most the kids were finished with their drawings, and she asked them to come up front and let her see them. There were the usual attempts at drawing Christmas trees, and despite it being Sunday school, several drawings of Santa Claus were done. And of course, the more ambitious tried Nativity scenes.
It was those that got the better attention from my sister in law, and she'd "ooh" and "ah" over most of them pointing out who the subjects were in the drawings. On one particular drawing, done by a little boy(who must be in his later '40's by now) she singled out the forms....
"OK," she'd say, "So here's Joseph and Mary," and the boy affirmed "Yep." then, "and the baby Jesus, and a shepherd," and the boy replied, "Uh-huh", then she asked, "But what's this floating up above everything? It looks like a gorilla....?" and the boy looked at her with an expression of exasperation and loudly protested....
"That's no GORILLA......that's MARK, the HAIRY ANGEL!"
Merry Christmas
Whitefang
Unlike the anecdote for Thanksgiving, this actually happened....
It was back in the latter '70's. My ex's older sister was teaching Sunday school. And on one Sunday, in a year in which Christmas day was the following Tuesday, she knew that the kids would be so anxious about Christmas that getting them to pay attention to a bible story would be difficult. So she handed out sheets of plain drawing paper and placed a bucket of crayons on each table and asked the kids to draw a picture of what Christmas makes them think of.
After a half hour, most the kids were finished with their drawings, and she asked them to come up front and let her see them. There were the usual attempts at drawing Christmas trees, and despite it being Sunday school, several drawings of Santa Claus were done. And of course, the more ambitious tried Nativity scenes.
It was those that got the better attention from my sister in law, and she'd "ooh" and "ah" over most of them pointing out who the subjects were in the drawings. On one particular drawing, done by a little boy(who must be in his later '40's by now) she singled out the forms....
"OK," she'd say, "So here's Joseph and Mary," and the boy affirmed "Yep." then, "and the baby Jesus, and a shepherd," and the boy replied, "Uh-huh", then she asked, "But what's this floating up above everything? It looks like a gorilla....?" and the boy looked at her with an expression of exasperation and loudly protested....
"That's no GORILLA......that's MARK, the HAIRY ANGEL!"
Merry Christmas
Whitefang