A few years ago, our church had a preacher who grew up on a cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills near Chadron. He was a genius at taking anecdotes from a wild and wooly childhood on a cow ranch and working them into something meaningful in a sermon. And cracking the congregation up in the process.
He told once about a time when he was 12, he and one of his buddies decided to play rodeo. They began riding a particular steer, the object being to see how fast each one could get the steer to run 100 yards across a corral. It was a hot summer afternoon, and the steer showed less and less enthusiasm for the proceedings as the process was repeated.
Finally, the steer had simply had it and took off through the fence. The preacher's 16 year old sister had just finished hanging clothes on a clothesline when the steer came charging through. The steer hooked the clothesline on his horns and disappeared across the countryside dragging the clothesline, and clothes, behind him. The preacher said his sister shouted a number of comments he couldn't repeat from the pulpit.
A neighbor finally found the steer several miles away, still dragging the clothesline.
I can't remember how he worked it into a sermon, but I was always convinced that if he hadn't become a Lutheran preacher he could have made it big as a stand-up comic.
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