A little girl was observed by her pastor standing outside the preschool Sunday
School classroom between Sunday School and worship, waiting for her parents to
come and pick her up for "big church." The pastor noticed that she clutched a
big storybook under her arms with the obvious title, "Jonah and the Whale."
Feeling a little parsnickerous, he knelt down beside the little girl and began a
conversation. "What's that you have in your hand?", he asked. "This is my
storybook about Jonah and the Whale," she answered.
"Tell me something, little girl," he continued, "do you believe that story about
Jonah and that whale to be the truth?" The little girl implored, "Why of course
I believe this story to be the truth!" He inquired further, "you really believe
that a man can be swallowed up by a big whale, stay inside him all that time,
and come out of there still alive and OK? You really believe all that can be
true?" She declared, "Absolutely, this story is in the Bible and we studied
about it in Sunday School today!"
Then the pastor asked, "Well, little girl, can you prove to me that this story
is the truth?" She thought for a moment and then said, "Well, when I get to
Heaven, I'll ask Jonah." The pastor then asked, "Well, what if Jonah's not in
Heaven?" She then put her hands on her little hips and sternly declared, "Then
YOU can ask him!"
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