The Answerer

Yes, without doubt, He does, and I thank you for asking it. I had not thought about it in 75 years. (Makes you smarter than me!) In 1969 I got baptised and a voice said: “You’ll be working with children.” Nobody else heard it. I had never worked with children as I had always made things you can touch and see the finished job. I forgot about it. Four years later I had a fall at home and got into a wheelchair. Six years later I was studying to be a teacher at university. I taught for seven years then went to Bible College for two years and in 1988 I began Scripture teaching. This year will be 23 years and they have been the best years of my life. I love Yr. 7 kids! While saying my prayers one morning a voice said: “Go and see Mrs Arnold”, a former cleaning lady. I did not want to go - I had a lecture to go to. ‘We’ argued back and forth - for how long I know not. I did reluctantly go the 50 km round trip. She came out to my car and said: “Well - God must have sent you. I was just about to jump out of the window and kill myself.” She talked for 45 minutes and I never got a chance to tell her: ”Well He did actually.” Michelle Hamilton in her book A Mighty Tempest was lost at sea for three days and two nights in a child’s canoe. God was there all right and knew what would happen tomorrow. It is a thrilling read. She’s from Sydney. She asked for nothing and neither did I. But God had a plan for both of us, and has a plan for your life too. Jokes The ‘village idiot’ was pushing a carpenters measuring tape up a ladder but it kept falling back. Other village idiot says: Why don’t you lay the ladder on the ground and measure it there? Think I’m stupid do you? The foreman said measure the height, not the length! From one girl I taught in 1990. “Mr Harris, do you know why gorillas have such big fingers?” “No Linda, I have no idea.” “Well they have big fingers don’t they.” Putting her finger towards her nose. Oh yuk! She was such a nice girl too (and still is). And: What did the necklace say to the hat? You go on a head and I’ll hang around. Hope you liked those bits of fun.