A woman once took her 4-year-old daughter to a baptismal service at her church. Later that night, her daughter took all of her dolls into the bathtub with her and held her own ‘‘baptism.’’ As she dunked each doll under the water, she repeated, ‘‘Now I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and hold your nose.’’
2. Pick and Choose
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Jeff Strite
A woman who was employed as a dental receptionist told this story: I was on duty when an extremely nervous patient came for root canal surgery. He was brought into the examining room and made comfortable in the reclining dental chair. The dentist then injected a numbing agent around the patient’s tooth, and left the room for a few minutes while the medication took hold.
When the dentist returned,...
