I don't have much inspirational to post today.

Since posting more inspirational topics, I noticed that my blog is getting more attention.

That's funny, because on YouTube, the opposite behavior happens.

Those who post videos of their Bipolar struggles, usually get lots of hits, and the moment that they start posting videos discussing God or their religious convictions, the views go down.

Today, I thought about posting something humorous, but as I thought about what I could be funny about, it reminded me about being in a religious study class.

The class itself, was actually Old Testament studies, and the teacher suddenly switched topics.

He brought up how he was a young man, and getting ready to leave on a mission.  Just before he left, he thought he should visit one of his church leaders about the way he'd been feeling about the jokes he used to tell.  For his visit, he saw this church leader at his office place of business.

The leader then asked him to tell him one of his off color jokes.  Now my instructor said that he sat there for probably 5-10 minutes before this church leader asked him again to tell him a joke.

Well, he finally told him a joke, and he said he couldn't remember the content of it when he told the class about this story.  He was then asked if he really thought it was funny.

His church leader, then opened the door and told him to turn around and bend over.  Our instructor complied, and then received a good kick in the butt out the door, and told to stop.

All of the secretaries & people working outside of the leader's office saw this, and my instructor was very embarrassed.

After he related this story to me, I thought about the manner of joking that I had been involved in, both before I married Ellie and after.

I felt bad, and I even called Ellie's dad to apologize to him about some of the jokes that I told around him.

Since that time, I have really struggled hard to not involve myself with dirty jokes.

My coworkers, often get to joking, and when it starts to turn dirty, I leave.  To some of them, it's a bit of game, to see if they can crack me, so that I'll join in their joking.

I can be proud to say that I can stay away from it.

If I could find this instructor, I'd like to thank him for his sudden thoughts of inspiration to share his story with the class.