You feeling kind of low?
You say you were out witnessing in your
heavy winter suit and it suddenly got warmer,
and you were all sweaty and itchy?
You say that when you got to the first door
and rang the bell that it kept ringing
because it was stuck?
That it kept ringing and ringing until you heard
a baby crying and a woman came
to the door all dripping wet,
wrapped in a bath towel and awfully mad?
So, did you calmly go ahead and try to
present your sermon, and then forgot the last Scripture?
You finally reach in your bag to present your literature
and discover that you sat your bag down
in a puddle and the books,
magazines and booklets have soaked
up the muddy water, but you smile anyway
and reach in your pocket for a handbill,
then you remember you are still carrying last weeks?
Has it got you a little worried?
You say you have been trying to preach
the Good News to a man who thinks you have insulted
his wife, and he is a 250 pound
Indian wrestler, who works as a
bouncer at the local casino?
Did he kick your book bag over
the fence and tell you if you disturbed him again,
he will break you in half?
Then he slams the door in your face
and you go to walk away and find that
your new coat is stuck in the door,
so you pull it until a piece tears off
and you fall flat on you face?
Now you say that a dog is trying to
tear the seat off your pants and the wind
is blowing your handbills all over the place
and a gang of children have gathered around
to laugh and throw stones at you,
and the police are coming and you forgot
your "Defending" booklet and left it at home?
Is this what makes you so down-hearted?
You say that you have to be at the meeting
in fifteen minutes but the car won't start,
your shoelace just broke
and the laundry didn't come,
so you haven't a shirt to wear?
Then you go to the Hall late and hear the chairman
announce that you have a part
on the program and you forgot to prepare it?
Then you sit down and discover that
you have the wrong book?
You are next, so you turn to the person beside
you to borrow his copy and it is the Circuit Overseer,
who just stopped in to see
how things are going? A cold nervous chill
comes over you and you hear your name called.
You reach up to straighten your tie
and feel something wet on your suit?
Yes, your pen has been leaking.
Does this all have you feeling discouraged?
You say that your brother believes in evolution,
your sister is going to marry a Buddhist,
and your mother just subscribed to
"Our Sunday Visitor" with the only dollar
you had saved for your Watchtower renewal,
and your father is trying levitation
and clairvoyance on you?
You haven't got troubles.
Think of the mess that you would be in
if you weren't one of Jehovah's Witnesses!!!