“That bass must have weighed 30 pounds,” said the old fisherman talking about a recent trip on the river. “I fought upwards of three hours to bring him into the boat.”
His buddy interrupted the story and scoffed, “I saw the picture you took of that fish. You’re lucky if it even weighed 10 pounds.”
The old fisherman replied, “Well, a fish can lose an awful lot of weight during three hours of fighting!”
Who doesn’t like a good story even the kind that fishermen tell? I know I would hate to listen to a sermon that didn’t have a single good story. Stories bring the word alive!
Scientist Gregory Bateson wrote a book titled Mind in Nature. In it he tells a revealing story. He says that scientists recently found a way to design a software program that makes computers function more like the hu…