At a riding stable where horses could be rented, the following sign was posted: "We have fast horses for folks who like to ride fast. We have slow horses for folks who like to ride slow. We have big horses for big folks and little horses for little folks and for those who have never ridden horses before we have horses that have never been ridden."

That sign reminded me of something that I did many years ago that I am going to confess to today. There is a side of me that many of you do not know about and haven't seen and I've tried to bring it under control as I have gotten older and more dignified, but I am a practical joker. I really love to play jokes on people. Well, I was pastoring my first church out of seminary in Mississippi and I had two staff members, a minister of music and educ…