A young man was visiting Amish country in Pennsylvania. He happened to see an old Amish couple coming out of a store and walking to get into their horse drawn cart.
He ran over and said, “Hello. I’m sorry to bother you, but I’ve always wanted to meet an Amish couple.”
The woman elbowed her husband in the ribs and said, “What did he say?”
The farmer looked at his hard of hearing wife and said, “He wanted to meet us.”
The young man went on, “So, you farm nearby?”
“Yes,” the man politely said, “we’ve been farming here all our lives.”
His wife ribbed him again and said, “What did he say?”
“He wanted to know if we had a farm around here.”
The young man asked, “Do you have children living nearby?”
“Yes,” the man said, “We have seven sons and three daughters living near us . . . some of them living with us.”
Before he could finish, his wife interrupted, “What’d he say?”
“He wanted to know if we had family around here.”
Then the young man confessed, “I actually dated an Amish girl once, but she was so bossy and wanted to tell me what to do and never would let me make up my own mind.”
Again, the wife interrupted and said, “What’s he saying now?”
“He said he thinks he knows you.”
(By Stephen Davey in a sermon: An Incredible, Immortal Inheritance from Romans 8:16-18)
