Question of the World to a Man of God — Leonard Ravenhill

Abnormal Days Require Abnormal Men

Should really punctuate his address or sermon with this phrase in my judgment. Because Men are so fallible, but in my judgment. We're living in the most critical days in human history. Abnormal days demand abnormal men with abnormal methods.

Making History Rather Than Merely Studying It

One of the requirements in studying for the ministry is that we study church history. But I think we have too many preachers studying church history and too few preachers making history. Studying church history is an indoctrination, which very often becomes I think brainwashing and The idea is to get you kind of mesmerized by your particular denomination and what it did in the last hundred or two hundred years.

And quite frankly, I'm not a bit interested in what your church has done in the last hundred years. But I want to tell you something. I am interested in what it does in the next five years. Billy Graham said not too long ago about my country that he thinks that England may have a dictator within the next five years and America may have one within five years from the time that England gets one.

I say again we in this hour. Both in the church as well as outside of it. We need abnormal men with abnormal methods and abnormal messages and I want to try to interest you tonight in this last meeting and I'm very grateful for the privilege of being here.

Samson and the Secret of His Strength

But I want to interest you in one of the most fascinating characters in the whole of the Bible the story that everybody knows and yet in one sense nobody knows it. A Story where from which we have gathered certain features and we have left in my judgment again certain truths buried.

Let me read you the sixth verse of the 16th chapter in the little used book of Judges and This is what the text says. And Delilah said to Samson tell me I pray thee wherein thy great strength lieth and Wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

One of the old European versions of the Bible includes an extra word in the text and The injected word is the word secret. So then the text reads tell me I pray thee wherein the Secret of thy great strength lieth and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Now this is a question of a woman of the world to a man of God. In my judgment Samson is a type of the anointed Church. Or he is a type of a spirit anointed individual. When the anointing is upon him he can subdue kingdoms.

He can stop the mouths of lions. He can put to flight the armies of the alien. He can make the materialistic world outside tremble and he moves in the power of the spirit and so did the church. When she had the anointing of God.

But again I want to repay it to repeat particularly to the preachers that I think that the hardest thing in the world is to get the anointing of God and the easiest thing In the world is to lose it. You'd hardly believe it, but.

Rip Van Winkle and the Church Asleep During Revolution

Well, you may believe I'm English, but you'd hardly believe that in the little schoolhouse in England I learned. What is the most of the best-known story in America about America. God. I've been to Australia been around the world a number of times and and I find in every country There's one story that everybody seems to know.

It isn't the old man and the sea by Hemingway. It isn't. As far as I remember it wasn't written by Mark Twain that very smart fellow. And he certainly was smart. You know the best-known story around the world about America is the story about Rip Van Winkle.

Isn't that something? And my schoolteacher told me that Rip Van Winkle one day went to sleep. He went up the hill. He went to sleep and he slept for a hundred years and. That's all I ever remember about the story until I grew up and found I'd always been suspicious about my teacher.

She thought I didn't know much and I knew she didn't and I discovered years afterwards that she didn't. Because you see the story about Rip Van Winkle is not the story about a man who went up a hill and slept for a hundred Years when Rip Van Winkle went up the hill there was a sign hanging on the old Tavern there English type and at that time England had millions of money invested in America.

And when he went up the hill hanging outside of the tavern was a sign and swinging in the breeze. Painted on that sign was the head of George the third of England because of England's interests in America.

But when he had slept for a century and he came down the hill. You know how he came down with fingernails as long as a modern office girl and whiskers like Castro. And when he got to the bottom of the hill there he forgot to look at the sign and that was his undoing.

The point of the story surely is not that he went to sleep for a hundred years. Because when he went up the hill there was the head of George the third on the side and when he came down the hill There was painted the head of George, Washington.

And I think the point of the story is not that he slept for a century, but that he slept through a revolution. And I suggest to you tonight. Fearing neither men nor devils not even the judgment seat of Christ where I have to answer for it.

But I believe this is a tragedy of the Church of Jesus Christ today. We're sweeping through a revolution. In every realm. It's an abnormal world. We're intoxicated because we are going to get two men on the moon bless your life.

It's only a third of a million miles away. If you could keep that rocket going at the same space to get to it the first star it will take men about 20 ,000 years to get to the first star. And in my opinion that Tang would be dry.

By the time they got there We've never had any astronauts. We have never had any cosmonauts. No problem getting to the moon. It may be a little harder getting to a planet. We certainly never will reach a star, but you see we're living in abnormal days.

If you had told your grandpa that you could take a picture of me or somebody else or good old Billy Graham. And I'm a hundred million people in America could see the same picture at the same moment. He would say you're ridiculous.

How can you take a man's face and break it up into a million bucks? You don't have to do it. Right across the nation even now bouncing the thing off telestar. You can watch a sports event in Europe. And it seems to me that every science has made such rapid progress.

The Church Stuck in the Mud

But the Church of Jesus Christ has been stuck in the mud for the last 30 or 40 years. There have been very few men in history who have aspired to dominate the world. One of them was a little Corpulent Corsican by the name of Napoleon and he nearly made it, but one day he gathered together his warlords.

And they're in his great office. He had a huge map of the world and he snapped these generals to attention. And then he he ran his index finger around the rugged edge of a great country. And then he said with a snarl gentlemen, there is a sleeping giant.

Let it sleep. Because he said if that nation ever wakes up and Harnesses its mineral power and its wealth to its manpower if that sleeping giant ever wakes. That sleeping giant will shake the whole world.

He said that prior to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 the country that he had outlined with a great jagged edge and the country that he plunged his finger into and the country that he said if she ever Harnesses a wealth and her mineral power to her manpower.

She'll shake the world. Was the country that's the biggest headache on the horizon tonight and it certainly is not Russia, but China by the year 1900 or a little after 19 by the year 2000 anyhow China will have a population of a thousand million people and the United States will will not be 500 million by that time I guess.

By the same token India will have a population of a thousand million people by the year 2000. How do you get to a thousand million people washed and dressed and put to bed and get up and see how in the world?

You do it. Nobody knows the Sociologies are staggered and they're afraid. And they look at it merely on the material level. Well God in heaven. What's wrong with us a thousand million people in China but by the average law of today will hardly ever hear the gospel of the grace of God.

Prayer for a Church That Will Not Sleep

A Story that really shook me recently reading in the what the twelfth chapter of the book of Acts. Where because one spiritual leader was taken and put to prison. Nobody went to bed that night the whole Church of God stayed up brother Robertson with prayer and with tears and with agony and they said if Peter is in prison, we're not going to sleep.

But we poor dissipated Protestants can go to sleep. Well thousands of millions of people go to hell tonight. I'm sure the greatest prison house in history leading up to a thousand million people in there.

I've been through it. It's dirty and frightening and horrible. But tell me preacher when did you last stay out of bed to? Pray and weep that your own soul might be quickened or your local church might have a holy ghost revival.

The world no longer says to us tell me what is the secret of my great strength. This woman stands back. Here is a man with the anointing of the Spirit of God again I say he can lift the gates of a city the gates of Gaza.

He can take the jawbone of an ass and slay the choice men from the What do you call it the West Point of the Philistine nation? And he can lay them all as easily as a boy with a sword or a man with a scythe could cut down the grass.

And therefore his enemies plot his destruction. And this woman comes and asks him the question tell me where in the secret of my great strength. And wherewith I might just be bound to afflict thee. Here is a man traveling in the greatness of his strength.

Nations are standing back because of one man. I Think we've got to relearn this or I have anyhow that one man with God is a majority never made committees. All committees do is spend hours making minutes.

But God never raised up committees. He raises up men. He didn't raise up Methodism. He raised up Wesley out of Wesley came Methodism of you if you like. But he didn't raise up Methodism. He raised up Wesley.

He didn't raise up the Salvation Army. He raised up William Booth. He didn't send a brigade of men. He sent a simple but very a God anointed Baptist minister to India and he rewrote history. And I have the privilege of preaching in his great church though of course he's been dead a century, but they're in the heart of Calcutta.

William carried a fine young Baptist when the other old stoogey Baptist said sit down young man when God wants to Evangelize India he'll do it without you. I believe in the sovereignty of God that the sovereignty of God plus human personality anointed personality spirit.

Directed personality and so here is this man again I say tremendous in the power of the Spirit of God and the woman says what is the secret of thy great strength? And he says well if you fasten me with seven in the next verse fasten me with seven green widths that were never used then.

Shall I be weak? No, I wish he'd said that but he was a nasty awkward kind of fella. They still he says if you fasten me with seven green words, then shall I be weak like other men now swallow that preachers.

Weak like other men and they fasten him with seven green words and boy he gets out like that and she says that's not the Secret he says no no no no. It's not seven green words. Fasten me with seven new ropes that were never used and they bind him with seven new ropes and hey presto he gets out like That and he says that is not the secret.

He says no, that's not. But you see I wear a coil of my hair rolled up. He was a Nazarite. And if you unroll his hair and fasten it into a beam I'll just be impotent. I'll be powerless and they did this and he shook his head nearly pull the house down.

And he said that's not the secret and he said no it's not and so now she came and she played on his affections and she found out his secret and When he said look, here's a secret I have been a Nazarite from the day of my youth and no razor ever came upon my head.

And immediately with her instinct. She said that's the secret. That's the secret and she went and told his enemies. And you know his story is a very simple story. You can tell it in three almost monosyllables the story of this giant this story of the man who had the anointing of God and was moved and was Irresistible and nobody could conquer him.

The story is told like this that first of all he gave his secret to the woman and the first thing they did was to Bind him and the second thing they did was to blind him and the third thing they did was to grind him they put him in the basement and made him grind corn for the Philistines and She knew that she got the secret and so she she she she got him to kneel down and put his head on a lap and She cut off the head of his head and He woke up and he said now I'll go out.

Immediately she heard his voice again saying the Philistines be upon me. He says I'll go out and I'll be as another man now. Maybe the first thing I have to do really here is destroy your mental image of Samson.

What do you tell the children in Sunday school something like this that the average man in Israel was this height and Saul the king of Israel was head and shoulders above the average man and Goliath was head and shoulders above This fellow Saul and then Samson was somewhere up there head and shoulders above everybody that ever lived.

Now that doesn't make sense. Women aren't so dumb. I Mean you can't imagine a woman going asking a man 19 feet high say buddy. What's the secret of your strength? It's pretty obvious. Don't you think?

And yet everywhere I've seen pictures of Samson and I've looked in art galleries around the world. He's always a towering man. He's a colossus. He's got muscles like watermelons and and he's got a ridge of marvelous muscles here that look like the The Rocky Mountains nearly and he's got great big monstrous legs on him.

He's a kind of super edition of Paul Bunyan if you like. You see what we have done. We have transferred from mythology, you know, Hercules. What did he do car? Kicked a range of mountains over or Atlas carrying the world on his back or if you're not so intelligent Jack and the Beanstalk.

Maybe that's your level. But anyhow a kind of Superman, you know Fellow that woke up a giant and he's going to do these amazing things. This woman does I think that maybe Samson was subnormal physically, but he was abnormal spiritually.

We think these days if you're going to be an evangelist you have to be a glamour boy. Somebody says, you know, he would have done well not well on films. Maybe he would carrying them, you know to be developed or something.

But anyhow, the idea is that these days if you're going to make it you've got to have a tremendous Personality and toothpaste smile and boy, you've got it made. Oh, no. No. Oh, yes. Yes, if you're gonna get a job with Madison Avenue, but you know God it works it in kind of inverse ratio.

God Uses the Weak and Empty

Oh God so despises our pride and all the other things that we boost that he says he he takes the the weak things of the world to confound the mighty and he takes the things that are not to bring to know the things that are and you've been Working so hard to get your degrees and everything.

Yes, and the Lord's hoping you'll nearly said sorry, but anyhow the Lord's hoping you'll burn them or you'll Send them to your mother-in-law or something because your degrees don't matter to God you could have 32 and still be frozen, but That's not what the Lord is after what the Lord is after men who are small enough and weak enough and empty enough and foolish.

Enough and self-satisfying enough and they've no personal ambition at all. And if you can get a man empty enough, he'll sell him if you can get a man. He can strip him told him even gave you if he can get a man that doesn't want anything that anybody has but all that God has.

Well, that's what he got in this man. Anyhow, but all when a man moves in the power of God what enemies that are. And this poor man lost his strength. Isn't he typical of the church? Again I remind you that the church that is is not the church that was.

The Church That Is Not the Church That Was

Every we're living presently in the Bahamas. I'm trying to do some more writing there. And each time we come in and come by West Palm Beach. I see that million and a quarter dollar church. Of course, it's a Baptist Church.

Nobody else could afford a church like that. And there's a great big Baptist Church on the front. And I think of Jess Moody. And I think of a young man that goes there often. He is the vice president of the script hard corporation.

And he said not very long ago as he wrote the introduction to Jess Moody's book I am not sure he said he says I'm not really a born-again Christian. But I am not sure that the church of today is the church through its Jesus died.

Well, if he isn't sure I am he didn't die for this freak of a thing this powerless thing this pale pathetic powerless putrid Protestantism that dares to label itself with his name the church when she was anointed of the Spirit of God in the acts of the Apostles could invade the Roman Empire with its millions of money and men.

She can invade the Grecian Empire with all its staggering intellectualism and she could go there into the monolith of the Hebrew religion that had dominated the world for 2 ,000 years and all God did was send some men and not change the style of the hair or change their faces.

He just worked a miracle of grace in their Personalities and they were emptied and they were filled with the Holy Ghost. And record says that they turn the world upside down. Brethren reads are meant to make history not study.

Wesley and Revival That Changed History

The bloody revolution swept over France. They swept the monarchy into a garbage. Can they put up that tricolor you remember Liberty fraternity and equality. And that bloody revolution swept over France and there's going to jump the English Channel, which is only 21 miles wide at the narrowest point and Lucky a secular historian not a Christian or religious historian says remember about bloody Sweep was going to engulf England and God raised up what an atom bomb?

Yes in the personality of a man only about five feet high by the name of John Wesley. And a secular historian remember says this man changed history. I reminded you last night on the night before that at 35 years of age brilliant.

He had acres of culture. Wesley could have died the Prime Minister of England. Wesley could have died a multimillionaire. Wesley could have died making more inventions and Edison. He had that type of brain.

But at 35 years of age one night about a quarter to nine on the 24th of May 1738 he said I thought my heart strangely warm. Volemy who indeed is a Catholic but a Belgian historian says that all that happened to Wesley that night on The 24th of May was that he had an epileptic fit.

Well, God Almighty give a hundred and fifty people here tonight epilepsy if it's going to do that for you. We sure need some fault that lamb an epileptic fit here tonight. No, sir. What happened was this that with all this culture and Again, I say he had acres of it his family had more influence in Britain at that time than any family except the royal family.

He came from a dynasty of intellectuals bishops and all the other learned people. But when that man was invaded and this is exactly what happened. He didn't sign a membership roll. Brother a membership rolls no more good than a sausage roll.

What you need is not to get on a membership roll, but get the Holy Ghost in you. And when the Holy Ghost came in he began to write and he changed the history. Remember slavery was abolished by the British before it was abolished by the Americans.

And it was abolished chiefly through the efforts of those Methodists. Remember the Labour Party who have their bright boy sitting on the throne in England right now. When I was a boy, he was the he was the head of the class in the in Britain's school of Socialism that had the backing of course of Bernard Shaw and all the others and they said one day Wilson will become the bright boy.

And and he become the president or the as we say the prime minister of Britain he made it. But that utopian philosophy that he had hasn't worked. He discovers there's something in human nature that is not subjective to the match subject to the magic wand of politics.

I Know no, no, he hasn't made it at all. But Wesley dominated by the Spirit of God again, I say change history. And we need some history changes tonight. Sure sure sure every preacher should have a sign as I said the other night.

You should have one sign in your office that says on eternity and the other you should have a sign preacher. Not it's later than you think preacher. It's later than you think. There are some people who doubt if the American economy can stand up for the next five years.

If you read that nerve-shattering book the death of a nation by the new book the death of the dollar. Or there are two other one or two other books that are very disturbing. But I'm not sincerely I'm not too I'm not too worried about this aspect of the thing at all.

Revival or Ruin

My concern is the Church of Jesus Christ. I believe the body politic is too rotten. There's too much corruption the mafia have a stranglehold almost on the nation. And what have you got? The only answer is in a Holy Ghost revival.

We have revival or we have ruin. We have revival or we have revolution. We may have revival and revolution. But certainly sir, it looks as though we're going to have revolution before too long unless something miraculous happens.

And we need more than ever a divine intervention. We need God to give us not one but hundreds even thousands of men anointed like this amazing man. Well, we need them in every town in every village. We need them in the cathedral.

We need them in the little local church out in the rural areas. We need men with this same anointing that this wonderful man had. But I say again, he lost that anointing. And he said after his hair had been taken off.

When he heard the threat from the woman the philistines be upon me. He got up and shook himself and he said I'll go out and be as I was at other times. And then you have some of the saddest words in the bible.

It said he wished not. That the spirit of God had departed from him. I was uh in Dr. Tozer's office one day. And he said to me Len I want to share something with you. A baptist preacher said something the other day.

That's very disturbing. I said doctor, what was it? He said this good baptist preacher said this To an audience that he was addressing. He said I want to tell you that if God withdrew the holy spirit from my church today.

It would function tomorrow the same way. We wouldn't even know he'd gone. And he thinks that might be written of many churches in that we become so mechanical. We go in at 11 and come out at 12. And the holy ghost must come when we open the door of the church and he must leave when we lock it.

And we try and lay down the track and say come holy ghost for thee we call spirit of burning come but come our way. We've laid down the conditions. Holy ghost come but please don't violate our theology.

Don't upset our status quo. Don't break our hearts over the lost world. Yes, yes preachers you and I will raise our hearts to finney and bull. And we raise our hearts to the martyrs and we thank god for the last drop of their blood.

But we won't give him the first drop of ours. They died. Persecuted forsaken ostracized penniless. But oh brother when it comes to the resurrection what a resurrection. I say we we we'll shed some Crocodile tears over the last drop of their blood, but we won't give the first drop of ours for holy ghost revival.

Spiritual Complacency and Gradual Compromise

And maybe it's going to take that before we get it. They experimented at Cornell university some years ago by putting a frog in a dishpan of boiling water and he jumped out. And then they put a frog in a dishpan of cold water.

And they turned the jet at the bottom and then they they turned it up one degree two degrees. And you know what that frog did he stayed in there till they cooked him to death. When they put him in the boiling water, he got out because he said I can't live here.

But when they by degrees they they change the thing and he adjusted and he adjusted and he adjusted and they still killed him anyhow. And you know, we've got some things in our churches. If not in our lives that a few years ago We would never would have had and old satan didn't pour the boiling water on he put this little thing and then that little thing.

And that little thing and before very long the church has become so carnal. The glory of the lord doesn't fill the temple. When did you last tiptoe out of your particular tabernacle saying surely god is in this place.

I say again with all the power of my being. I do not believe that modern christians go to church to meet god. They go to church to hear a sermon about god. They don't expect deity to invade the place.

They don't expect to tiptoe out of the holy place saying god is the here and that to bless us. The spirit moved over my heart. A boy has said to me a sweet thing this morning. He's only a young fellow 17 rating I guess and he said brother ravenel.

It's been so good to be here this week, you know during the preaching and a number of priests besides me. But he said during the preach the lord has been pushing back my horizons. Well, god bless him.

I'm glad for fellows that have got bigger horizons. You know david prayed enlarge my heart. Some of us are praying enlarge my head. Well brother if you only get as much in it in the next five years you got in the last you you better keep a small head.

But uh, david didn't pray enlarge my head. He says enlarge my heart. And if he enlarges my heart he'll enlarge my vision. He'll enlarge my compassion. He'll enlarge my concern. Yes, they took this man and they Were able to pin his arms behind his back and then they were able to put him in the basement and they put out his eyes.

Gideon and the Question of Missing Miracles

And he lost the anointing. There's a remarkable story if you turn back not now. But when you go home turn back 10 chapters in this same wonderful book of judges. And there's a story there we tell the children, but it's not a children's story.

It's a story of a man called gideon. And I guess that gideon wasn't more than 19 years of age. And he was fresh in corn one night. They turned night into day and day into night and he was fresh in corn.

And suddenly with a thing that we call a tribulum from which we get the word tribulation. Incidentally and with that tribulation tribulum. He was separating the the wheat from the chaff and he looked up and there was an angel and he was afraid.

And the angel said to him god is with thee thou mighty man of valor. Oh, that sounds like a joke, doesn't it? If i'd been there and the angel had said that to me, I would have whipped around I think and said so angels tell jokes to her.

Me 17 years of age mighty man of valor. Do you know why i'm working at midnight because I didn't work at midday you see that hole in the cave up there. That's where I live. You see the next hole. That's where my uncle lives.

You see the next one about the apostles through trees. Yes, that's where the preacher lives. And do you know why we're living there? We're in captivity again to the midianites. If you tell some people that god almighty may send communism to america to purge it of its uncleanness and its sin.

And its lethargy and its unbelief and the selfishness amongst believers. They want you ordered shipped out of the country, but I want to tell you god loved israel. But he let her go into bondage for 400 years.

And then when she came out he let her go into bondage another 400 years and now they're in bondage not to the philistines. And after all dear friend when you read the old testament almighty god's problem in the old testament Was not the amalekites or the hittites or the perizzites or the jebusites.

God only had one problem in the old testament and that was israel. And I believe almighty god only has one problem in the world tonight. It's not communism or romanism. It's the church of the living god.

And he is concerned about her with his own blood. He bought her and for her life he died. And if jesus weeps he weeps tonight because of the paralysis of the church the glory has departed. We go through the mechanics.

We have the choir to sing and somebody to sing which may be very beautiful. But when did you last have any supernatural operation of god in your church? When did a man walk out and say oh boy, I forgot I left my crutches.

This happened in revival not too long ago in germany. Where no mention was made about healing. But the holy ghost was on the meeting and and suddenly somebody in the meeting says oh I can see i've been blind all my life I can see.

And somebody else said my pain has gone and somebody I went out to the bathroom and coughed up a cancer. And somebody going out of the building said oh, I forgot my crutch. Hey, i'm healed. Isn't it? Wonderful.

They were so intoxicated with god. They couldn't even remember how they it came that they were healed and they were delivered and they were purged and they were made whole. And you see the gospel of the grace of god healing is not the whole of the gospel.

It isn't the main part of the gospel. But that it is a part of the gospel. Nobody with intelligence can dispute. I say again every preacher whatever his denomination he goes to hospital and pray for the sick.

And if those people die, you're all right, but if they get better, you're a healer. You'll be in trouble. You baptist preachers have better not go to hospital and pray for people for if they get sick.

They'll say you're a friend of oral roberts. I mean if they get healed. Oh the church that is is not the church that was but you know Samson began and he went up like a rocket and then he lost his anointing and he went down but he ended up better than He started and the church of the living god is going to end up better than she started.

The Church as the Bride of Christ

Jesus is not coming for a widow. He's coming for a bride. He's not coming for an old woman with bunions on her feet and and and baggy eyes, you know. Tuttering like this and and and if you listen to the radio preachers if he doesn't get here soon.

He'll only get time to bury her anyhow. He didn't die for a corpse. He died for a bride. And he's coming to the bride. Come hell or high water as the poet may say come communism with all it has. Come bankruptcy to the american financial system if you like and british and everybody else is.

Revival is not dependent on one of these materialistic things. None of this security god can break every crutch on which we lean and then get glory to himself. And he thinks he's going to have to go that way because we've lived our seven years of plenty and we haven't done too much.

For god except buy bigger boats, and then we need all funny to run around in them. Anyhow, but one day brother you'll watch that boat rot and you watch your automobile. You won't have gas enough to buy for it.

You won't have enough money to buy gas for it. And the only place of refuge will be you'll be going to your church your methodist your baptism some other place. And you know what we'll be doing. We'll have time to fast and pray now because there won't be enough food to be gluttons like we've been.

And you won't have any more problem dieting brother. No, sorry, your problem won't be dieting your problem will be getting enough to live on. I think before the seven years of plenty are nearly over for america.

I tell you that and for the rest of the prosperous world. The teeming millions are coming up and something will have to be done. But I say this man is threshing corn. He says I live in a hall up there on the mountains.

We're in captivity now to the midianites and they should never have been there. God is with thee the almighty man of valor. You remember his answer. I think it's one of the most stirring and searching and staggering answers in the whole of the bible.

The answer of this boy about 17 years of age to the angel was this if god be with us. Where be his miracles that our fathers told us on? I'm hoping tomorrow we're going to pick up our granddaughter. My son's going with a team down into the caribbean for the summer and his wife will be getting off a plane here tomorrow I guess with her two little babies and and i'll have the joy of getting one of them.

She's about two or a little over two and uh and put her on my knee. And if I know anything at all, it will take me back to the diet time when I sat on my granny's knee. Or my grandpa's knee. Oh time goes so quick.

Man, it just rushes away. I I sometimes feel you know, when I think i'm married to a grandmother it rather gets me down a bit but. Uh, the the thing is that the years are running on and and uh, I had a birthday here this week.