If you happened to look at a church calendar for today, the first Sunday after Pentecost, you may have seen that today is called Trinity Sunday. That might have given you cause for alarm. You may have thought to yourself, “Oh, no, a deep, dull sermon is coming on the mystery of the Trinity.” That would be a perfectly natural reaction. So, to keep you awake, I’m going to address an entirely different subject that of kissing. And I’m going to begin with the worst joke about kissing that I know.

It seems a new weight-loss clinic opened for business. This clinic promised a brand new method of reducing. An overweight man named Harry decided to give it a try. Upon entering, Harry saw a sign that offered the following rates: Ten-pound loss: $10.00; Twenty-pound loss: $20.00; Fifty-pound loss: $1…