Jim Brown - God Has a Sense of Humor (Ep. 33)

(Oh, keep a level head, boys,
And preach the lighter news.
Don’t disappoint the gentle folk:
Our church needs better pews!)

Jim Brown was hired to clean the church;
All week he kept it fair.
That Sunday with his family
He came to worship there,
That Sunday with his family
He came to worship there.

“Oh, no, poor Jim, that may not be,
For then there’d be a war.
Our congregation are all white,
And you know what you are.
Our congregation are all white,
And you know what you are.”

Back home Jim Brown knelt by his bed
And wept till eyes grew dim.
That night his room became a shrine,
For Jesus came to him.
That night his room became a shrine,
For Jesus came to him.

He said, “My child, don’t feel so sad.
For twenty years I, too,
Have tried to enter that very church
With no more luck than you!
Have tried to enter that very church
With no more luck than you!”

(But, keep a level head, boys,
And preach the lighter news.
Don’t disappoint the gentle folk:
Our church needs better pews!)

"I have never believed that devotion to truth should make one grim or excessively solemn. My Guru often taught through merry examples. I have noted, in the more than fifty years since he left his body, that some of his followers and even some of his direct disciples tend to speak of him with the hushed reverence one might show at a funeral—as though to associate him with jollity were somehow impious.

The truth is, I saw him many times laugh so heartily that he ended up wiping the tears from his eyes.

The following story was one he told to make fun of race prejudice. All I have done is simply put the story to poetry and music, add the first stanza, and give Jim Brown a name."

(From the book “I’ve Passed My Life as a Stranger, Lord” by Swami Kriyananda)