guitar
Several years ago, not long, in fact, after my last story, we were involved in getting a new church set up.

(You can keep all your 'all Christians are thick religious twonks' thoughts out of this, by the way. You might be surprised if you actually met some of us.)

My wife is very gifted musically and led worship most Sundays with her beaten up old guitar. Sometimes she would borrow other people's guitars because hers really was nasty, but she couldn't afford a half decent one.

The pastor arranged for her to play at another church one Sunday, and while she was there they had a secret offering to get her a guitar. They then told me they'd collected £500 to spend on one for her. Now they wanted to surprise her with a new guitar, but didn't know which one.

So I said to her "look, you've been asking God for a guitar for ages - why don't we go to the guitar shops and have a look around. Then you can pray for a specific guitar and maybe even save up towards it." I somehow managed it with a straight face, and she somehow took it at face value, and we looked around the shops and found one that she loved.

She was utterly shocked when she was presented with the exact guitar she wanted a week later, with lots of love from the whole church.
(teasus likes tea, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 16:52, 11 replies)

Well it's easy for you lot isn't it : )
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( girlinthehole, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 19:06, closed)

que?
do you mean life? no - it isn't. Sorry.
(teasus likes tea, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 12:40, closed)

You know,
I know a way you could have a solid gold guitar...
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 20:05, closed)

Can she play
Number of the beast by Iron Maiden ?
(The_artist_formally_known_as_alz0r, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 5:51, closed)

my son can
He plays drums in a grungey metal band, but he's quite good at guitar too
(teasus likes tea, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 12:43, closed)

So what did you get her?
The public ought to be told...
(gordonjcp, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 10:32, closed)

A Yamaha APX5a
It's a nice little electro- accoustic number.

Oh, and a proper case too.
(teasus likes tea, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 12:44, closed)

So, basically...
...Prayer is cheating? I KNEW it!
(apologies_for_length, Sun 5 Oct 2008, 0:51, closed)

Nobody minds THAT sort of christian
It's the "You're going to Hell" kind we can't stand. The "Just be excellent to one another" kind we like fine.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 5 Oct 2008, 19:50, closed)

!!!
Thats nothing, you should have seen what Robert Johnson got...
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:14, closed)

Word of advice...
...if you're going to act that defensive, why get surprised when people then decide to attack you?

I wonder when in the course of writing this you felt we'd all really appreciate being prejudged as anti-religious, and the type who would start bombarding you with hate speech unless you told us not to first.

Thanks for assuming what we all think. I really, REALLY, appreciate it when people do that.
(Musuko, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 16:09, closed)