God

While writing my sermon for this week I came across this joke. Too bad it's not appropriate for church ...

A nine year old boy came to his mother with a very troubled look on his face. "Mom," he said, "is God a male or a female?"

"Well, that's a very hard question to answer," said his mom. "But the easiest way to think of it is that God is both male and female."

A troubled look swept across the boy's face. "But Mom, is God black or white?" The mother, with some concern about where this line of questions might end up, answered, "I guess you would have to say that God is both black and white."

The boy was obviously filled with tremendous confusion as he started to form his third question. The mother, by now, was becoming somewhat alarmed. She braced herself for the next question. "Mom, is God gay or straight?" She took a deep breath and said, "God is both gay and straight."

The look of total consternation melted away as the boy's face lit up. The mother sighed to herself, relieved that he finally "got it."

"Mom?" he asked. "Is God Michael Jackson?"