I’ve heard comedians say that they sometimes will have kids just so they can get some new sources of material. When the “what’s the deal with being single” jokes dry up, they get married, have a kid and gain access to “what’s the deal with diaper genies” material. Sometimes pastors are the same way.
My dad, New England’s fourth Southern Baptist Minister, used to tell people that he gave his kids a dollar every time he mentioned them in a sermon. But I don’t ever remember cashing in on those shout outs.
I deserve maybe $14 over the years but recently I wrote some introduction videos that are going to force one of my favorite ministers to pay his baby about $4.2 million. Joel Thomas, of North Point, was doing a 3-week series on what it means to have child-like faith at 7-22, a big single’s event. So I wrote three different scripts and then Tripp Crosby, who is uber-talented, put them to the films he shot. The result is a baby that says things in the bathtub like, “Have you met my friend Scuba Steve? He’s got a leg condition. Kicks them really quickly.” Here they are:
2. Bath time.
Lonesome Crick
Sunrise was sweet little Suzy’s favorite time of day. It didn’t make much sense for a six year old to get up to watch the sunrise, but she did. Each morning, Dalton used to find her outside watching the sun unfurl long rays of light across their farm. And his wife loved the sunset. So every day, now that they were gone, now that a cougar/flood/tornado, had taken his family, Dalton felt twin stabs of pain in his heart. One in the morning and one in the evening. And each time, he felt the siren’s call of the devil juice, whiskey.
Click here if Julieanne’s father meets Dalton in the feed store and hires him on as a farm hand.
Click here if Julieanne’s horses get spooked and Dalton saves her life in the town square.
