Hello and thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. We are still taking some posts from this book,

The Pleasure of His Company. I said it before, I'll say it again. We don't get this right.

Nothing else will matter. So let's keep first things

first. We'll do a few more this week. Obviously, we will still pray at the end. And the title of our

post today is The Union. Unlike most of you, impatient sinners, I love to wait. Not. After 60-plus years, I think I'm making

progress slowly. I mean, really, who enjoys waiting? There are several things I would fix immediately

if I was placed in charge of the world. Driving in the passing lane of an interstate highway

when not passing another vehicle would result in a $500 fine for

first-time offenses, an automatic loss of driver's license for the second offense.

Retaking driver's education would be required in order to get it back.

Actually, I might just make everyone take or retake driver's education,

even without the offense, this offense.

Then they would all know how to use blinkers.

Families or friends whose group stretches all the way across the terminal corridor in airports,

walking slowly, chit-chatting, and blocking those of us who have places to go and things to do would lose all flying privileges, unless they took an airport walker's education course.

Ladies, sorry ladies, but ladies who stand in checkout lines digging for pennies in the bottom of their purses would be charged an additional $100 for the purchase.

Cashiers who visit with them while this is happening, distracting them, would be fired.

I have more of these in the book, you'll see. I could fix the world.

It's easy to see that, given the right opportunity, I could correct many of the problems in the world and eliminate the stress caused by unnecessary weighting.

The delays caused by these inconsiderate, dim-witted, thick-headed, boneheads, they're really not a big deal to me.

For the most part, I'm pretty well adjusted, mild-mannered, cool, calm, collected, very patient guy.

Okay, so I don't like waiting. Most of us don't. But there is one type of waiting I've learned

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