Are Cows Really Holy? (standard:humor, 915 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Apr 03 2016	Views/Reads: 2129/1440	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
You can tell a lot about a person by the words and phrases they use. Of course, most use words and phrases they have no idea what they mean. Perhaps they heard somebody else say these words or phrases and so they incorporated them into their vocabulary, w

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Yes, sticks and stones can break my bones, but that is nothing to what
harm words can do. 

At a real desperate point in my life, I responded to an incident
involving my wife and almost automatically, the phrase, “Holy Cow,” 
came tumbling out of my mouth. Needless to say, it was the last time 
anything like that ever happened. 

My wife looked at me with one of “those looks,” and said, “Holy what?” 

How can you explain something you do not understand yourself? She looked
at me, I look back at her with one of those blank stares I am famous 
for, and had no idea what she was talking about. 

She had no idea what I was talking about and so I thought at least we
were even. But not so. 

I had to promise her “and cross my heart and hope to die,” never to use
such a phrase again. “That phrase,” she said most defiantly, “is not 
permitted in this house.” She said it in such a way that I have, to 
this very day, never questioned her on it and have never used that 
phrase again. 

James warned about this when he wrote, “Even so the tongue is a little
member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little 
fire kindleth!” (James 3:5). 

I do not know if cows are holy or not, but I will never put those two
words together in a phrase whatsoever as long as the sun shines. 


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