00342

            A man appears before the pearly gates.

            “Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asks.

            “Well, I can think of one thing,” the man offers.  “Once I came upon a gang of high-testosterone bikers who were threatening a young woman.  I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen.  So I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker.  I smacked him on the head, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring and threw it on the ground, and told him, ‘Leave alone now or you’ll answer to me.’”

            St. Peter was impressed.  “When did this happen?”

            “A couple of minutes ago.”

If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get out of the Boat, John Ortberg, page 53