Two pastor’s wives were sitting mending their husband’s trousers. One of them said to the other, “My poor Andrew, he’s totally discouraged in his work at church. He told me yesterday he was thinking of packing it all in. Nothing seems to go right for him.”

The other replied, “Well, for my husband it’s the complete opposite. He’s so vibrant and on fire, it seems like the Lord is closer to him than ever before.”

There was a subdued stillness as they continued to mend their husband’s trousers; the first one patching the seat of the pants, the other the knees!

Source: Simon Guillbaud, For What It’s Worth, 2006, Oxford: Monarch Books, p.80