Yet another example of why the people in my family aren't mature enough for church...

On Sunday, Amy and Adam joined Trevor and I at 10:30 church.

One of the lessons was from Jonah:

The Lord God appointed a bush, and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, "It is better for me to die than to live." But God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?" And he said, "Yes, angry enough to die." Then the Lord said, "You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?"

(Jonah 4:6-11)

Except all the talk about bushes and worms made Amy start giggling uncontrollably. The harder she tried to stop, the worse it became.

Trevor, upon seeing Amy, also started to chuckle and - before you knew it - all four of us in the pew were trying desperately to stifle our laughter before anyone around us noticed.

It is sort of amazing we didn’t get kicked out of church.

To be fair, when I was little, the bush was always “ivy” or “a plant” in Sunday School. Of course, I was also at an age where a worm attacking a bush (or Ivy for that matter) would never have been misconstrued to mean anything other than what was intended.

Sometimes I miss the literalness of childhood.

Speaking of: Last Sunday's Sunday School lesson was about Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge. Trevor and I have been watching a lot of TRUE BLOOD, Season II recently, and one of the characters on the show said Eve was short for “EVE-IL”. Trevor thought this was hilarious. So, every time Eve came up in the lesson, Trevor would turn to me and mouth, “Eve is short for EVE-IL!”

It is amazing none of the kiddos caught him in the act.

[Shakes head]

This week’s lesson involves Lucky Charms and searching for treasure. I’ll try to figure out how that relates to the Bible later on and get back to you.