The university chaplain was late for a meeting. He roared down the interstate through a sparsely populated area of his state. He was traveling ten miles per hour over the speed limit. As the blue light from the highway patrol car flashed in his rearview mirror, the churning in his stomach was exceeded only by his anger at his foolishness. Putting on his best professional face and a humble demeanor, he gave the officer the requested information and jotted in his date book the time and location of his court appointment.

On the appointed day he journeyed to the rural, county seat town armed with a notebook full of excuses to try to impress the judge into letting this important man of the cloth out of his speeding ticket. His face turned an ashen gray as the proceedings began. The judge who wal…