Some of you will remember country comedian Jerry Clower. Besides being a funny story-teller, Clower, who died in 1998, was a deeply religious man. He tells of an occasion when he invited Sue, his 14-year-old daughter, and one of her friends to go with him on a trip to the Country Music Awards show in Hollywood. He listed for Sue some of the celebrities she would meet if she went, some of the best-known entertainers at that time. Sue’s response?

She said, “Daddy, I love you and I’m so glad that you would arrange it to where me and one of my friends could go on this trip, but Daddy, there’s something going on at church . . . I don’t want to miss. I won’t be able to go with you this time.”

Jerry Clower says tears welled up in his eyes and he wanted to sing the Doxology to think that a churc…