A preacher who shall we say was humor impaired attended a conference to help encourage and better equip pastors for their ministry Among the speakers were many well known and dynamic speakers One such boldly approached the pulpit and gathering the entire crowd s attention said The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman that wasn t my wife The crowd was shocked He followed up by saying And that woman was my mother The crowd burst into laughter and delivered the rest of his talk which went over quite well The next week the pastor decided he d give this humor thing a try and use that joke in his sermon As he surely approached the pulpit that sunny Sunday he tried to rehearse the joke in his head It suddenly seemed a bit foggy to him Getting to the microphone he said loudly The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of another woman that was not my wife The congregation inhaled half the air in the room After standing there for almost 10 seconds in the stunned silence trying to recall the second half of the joke the pastor finally blurted out and I can t remember who she was

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