The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89103   Message #2731062
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
25-Sep-09 - 09:26 AM
Thread Name: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Subject: RE: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
I've got to stop posting on the run! I'm on my way out the door to go to sing at a funeral and forgot to post the section I referred to in the last post. Here it is...

Gotta remove hence...

"And Jesus said unto them, verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."
                                                   Matthew 17:20 KJV
Back when I was at the University of Wisconsin I was living in a rooming house with 13 other guys. By then, I'd been playing guitar for three or four years and with the exception of three or four lessons I was self-taught. In the evening, I'd sit in my room, softly playing my Fender electric guitar, and friends would occasionally wander in to listen. One friend in particular kept telling me how much he wanted to play guitar. "I'd give my right arm to be able to play guitar," he'd say. I'd look at him and answer, "If you want to learn to play guitar, give me fifteen minutes of your time every day and I can teach you what I know." "Fifteen minutes?, he'd say, I don't have the time for that!" I used to kid him saying, "You'd give your right arm to learn to play guitar, but not fifteen minutes a day?" If I'd been up on my bible, I would have told him to "Remove hence to yonder place!"