Repent, O Scottish painter
August 12, 2011 by admin
Filed under newsletter-miscellaneous
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey Macgregor who was very
interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down
his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually
the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the
outside of one of their biggest buildings.
Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job.
So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks,
and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down
with water…
Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job
nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of
thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned
paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the
scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by
telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.
Smokey was no fool.
He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty,
so he got down on his knees and cried:
“Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?”
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke..
(you’re going to love this!)
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“Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!”
Don’t blame me I just send them on …
– fwd courtesy: marylene crasto