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Rev. W. O. Taylor, 91, was the oldest man attending the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago.
At the annual free breakfast for retirees, Brother Taylor rose and recited his own alliterative version of the parable of the prodigal son, which he entitled
"The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive":
"Feeling footloose, fancy-free, and frisky, this feather-brained fellow finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune.
Forthwith, he fled for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with fair-weather friends.
Finally, facing famine, and fleeced by his fellows in folly, he found himself a feed flinger in a filthy farmlot.
He fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from the fodder fragments.
"'Fooey!
My father's flunkies fare far fancier,' the frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, frankly facing fact.
"Frustrated from failure and filled with forebodings, he fled for his family.
"Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly.
'Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited further family favors. .
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"But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged his flunkies to fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feast.
"But the fugitive's fault-finding frater, faithfully farming his father's fields for free, frowned at this fickle forgiveness of former falderal.
His fury flashed, but fussing was futile.
"His foresighted father figured, 'Such filial fidelity is fine, but what forbids fervent festivities?
The fugitive is found!
Unfurl the flags!
With fanfare flaring, let fun, frolic, and frivolity flow freely, former failures forgotten and folly forsaken.
Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future fortitude.'"
taken from _More Holy Humor_ by Cal and Rose Samra
Copyright (c) 1997 by the Fellowship of Merry Christians, Inc.
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