BARNEY: (very excited) Grandpa, Grandpa. Where are you? I need some answers quick.

GRANDPA: (Grandpa enters) Whoa, hold on now, Barney. What in tarnation has you so worked up? Did you chase that bunny out of our yard again? Or did the squirrel steal your dogfood? I can't imagine what has caused you to be so riled up.

BARNEY: Well, you see, I heard the kids talking, you know Butch and Chris and Madonna and Sally and Johnny and Dale, they were all chattering in the kitchen and I just happened by and heard what they were saying.

GRANDPA: You weren't eavesdropping again, were you? You get yourself in some mighty big trouble doing that.

BARNEY: Oh, no. I was just stopping by the kitchen to get a drink and I couldn't help hearing them. Those kids talk loud you know.

GRANDPA: Okay, so you weren't listening just to find out something you didn't need to know. Come on. Tell me what it is you want to know about.

BARNEY: Well, one of the kids mentioned that in their Sunday school lesson last week, God promised someone that they would have a baby even though they were really old, you know, like you and Grandma.

GRANDPA: So you think Grandma and I are really old, do you?

BARNEY: Well, you are older than I am.

GRANDPA: So we are -- go on with your story.

BARNEY: Well, God said that this person would have as many descendants as stars in the sky. But what's a descendant?

GRANDPA: A descendant is someone of your family who is born after you, sometime, a long time after you, hundreds of years even.

BARNEY: Okay, I understand now but how can someone have descendants if they don't have any kids.

GRANDPA: I think I know what the kids were talking about. You see, God was talking to Abraham who was married to a lady named Sarah and they had no children. Abraham could not understand how he and Sarah could have a baby when they were so old. But a miracle happened! When Abraham was a hundred years old and Sarah was ninety they had a baby son.

BARNEY: Wow! That was some miracle. So then from there the descendants began to add up. Neat.

GRANDPA: Does that answer some of your questions, Barney?

BARNEY: Yes it does and it also relieves my mind a bit too.

GRANDPA: How's that?

BARNEY: I though I was going to be hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet and it wasn't going to be me.

GRANDPA: You mean you thought that Grandma and I would be having a baby.

BARNEY: Well, you're almost as old as Abraham & Sarah.

GRANDPA: That me be but that promise was for Abraham and Sarah and God kept his promise to them.

BARNEY: I'm glad that it was them and not you. I don't think I could deal with a baby. Well, I'm going out and dig up one of my bones and have a good chew. Bye kids.

GRANDPA: Kids, just remember. God keeps His promises, all of them.