Trials and Tribulations

My brother Bob has always said he was going to write a book someday, but so far he has only been able to come up with the title "Trials and Tribulations". I always told him if he would record his stories that I would type them for him. I had better brush up on my typing because this is the first time I have typed on a computer and believe me it ain't like the typewriters I have used in the past.

Bob told me one day he was sitting on his front porch and a man came walking by and waived at him. Bob waived back. The man asked if he could come sit and visit with him a few minutes because he was the new preacher of the Friends Church and was trying to visit as many people in town as he could. Bob said, "sure, come on over and sit a spell."

Bob said they talked about the town of Galax and how he was born and raised there and left town several times but always came back. Bob said the preacher was quiet for a minute and then turned to Bob with a serious look on his face. He asked the preacher if everything was alright.

"Oh yes" he said with a smile. "I sometimes take on a serious look, I've been told, when I am worrying about someone's walk with the Lord". "Bob, do you ever think about the Here After?"

Bob said he thought for a minute. Bob's minutes are longer than the average and he talks slower than that. Bob told me he told the preacher he thinks of the here after every day. He said the preacher looked surprised and said, "you think about the Here After every day. Why may I ask?"

"Well Sir," Bob said in his slow southern drawl, "Every day when I come out here on this porch, I ask myself, what did I come out HERE AFTER."

This is the end of one of Bob's trials and tribulations!