Silly Joke Friday

Silly Joke #1

A gorgeous blonde was driving in her car on the highway. Eventually, she crashed into the car in front of her. When a policeman arrived on the scene and approached her, he asked, “Ma’am, are you ok?” She responded, “I’m fine Officer. This all happened because no matter where I turned there was a tree in my way! I went left and there it was and I went right and there it was again!” The officer leaned over and said, “Ma’am that was your air freshener…”

Silly Joke #2

Pam was talking to her friend Allie over a coffee at their favorite cafe. “It seems as if I have spent a lifetime of mouthing mechanically, “Say thank you… Sit up straight… Use your napkin… Close your mouth when you chew… Don’t lean back in your chair…” And just when I finally got my husband squared away, my kids came along!!!

Silly Joke #3

There were two evil brothers. They were rich and used their money to keep their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians. Then, their pastor retired and a new one was hired. Not only could the new pastor see right through the brothers’ deception, but he also spoke well and true, and the church started to swell in numbers. A fundraising campaign was started to build a new assembly. All of a sudden, one of the brothers died. The remaining brother sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying for the new building. “I have only one condition,” he said. “At his funeral, you must say my brother was a saint.” The pastor gave his word and deposited the check. The next day the funeral was held and the pastor did not hold back. “He was an evil man,” he said. “He cheated on his wife and abused his family.” After going on in this vein for a small time, he concluded with, “But, compared to his brother, he was a saint.”

Bonus Silly Joke

Two newlyweds were riding in the back of a limo on the way to their honeymoon boat cruise. The husband says, “Honey, I want to stop and pick up some condoms before we go.” “Good idea,” she says. “While you’re in there, pick me up some Dramamine (sea sickness medicine).” The groom gets out, walks into the drugstore and says to the gorgeous blonde clerk, “I’d like a box of condoms and a package of Dramamine, please.” “Yes sir, she says, “but do you mind if I ask you a question? If it makes you nauseous, why do you do it?”

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Question For The Day

Today’s question is…

What is the most expensive thing you ever bought that you wish you hadn’t?

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson


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Daily Reflection

“For the love of money is the root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (1 Timothy 6:10)

When this article is published, the Superbowl will be long over, a new champion crowned, and life will have moved on from all the annual football hoopla for one more year. But, presently, as I write this, I’m sitting at my friend Mike’s house, waiting for the big game’s opening festivities, where I’ve just learned the cost of a barebones trip to actually see this year’s Superbowl in person was around $6000, which included the cost of a ticket, parking, and food!

$6000! Just to see a game! While I love watching the Superbowl on TV every year, and while I do have various teams I’ve supported over the years in football and other sports too, I can think of a million things these days I’d rather do with $6000 than spend it on a sporting event. Truly, I think if I even had won tickets to this year’s Superbowl, I would have sold them and used the money on something far more practical in my life. Yet, I know I wouldn’t have been able to say that earlier in my life.

How often I spent money on the dumbest of things in my life looking for happiness is countless at this point. Most of those superficial purchases generally ended with me asking myself why I had wasted my money on it. Probably the silliest of which came after my father died, where I bought a brand-new Acura Integra GSR to cope with his passing and had parts of it dipped in 14K gold! Yes, I really did that. (SMH!)

If there’s one thing I’ve absolutely learned in this life in the year I’m about to finally turn 50 is that money never brings about any long-lasting happiness. If anything, it has always created for me an itch that no amount of scratching was ever able to take away.

While I’m quite sure that some great memories were probably made for those who spent $6000 to see this year’s Superbowl, especially if their team ended up winning, in the end, it, like anything else one lavishly spends money on, only will create a drive for more. An endless search for one pleasure after another in this world, where that drive itself becomes far more important than anything else, where having faith, sharing unconditional love, and even caring about others becomes second to simply pleasing oneself…

Dear God, help me to always remember that all the physical pleasures of this world will never bring about true happiness, something I’ve seen has only ever come in seeking You and in serving others rather than myself. 

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson