The Boy Who Read SUPERMAN Comics In Church

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At the Universal Studio Church,

Reverend Stevie Buddly

gave his Sunday School students

a special assignment:

draw pictures of God

Universally respecting

Freedom of Religion,

Reverend Buddly expected 

twenty children to draw

dramatically different images

 

After three hours

of Sunday School,

—using hundreds of crayons,

highlighters and Sharpies—

this proved to be true

 

However, 

minutes after

the assignment began,

a boy named Fredo

was reading 

a Superman Comic Book

 

"Fredo, you're supposed to be

drawing God,

why are you reading

a comic book?"

 

"Because I finished the assignemt"

and the boyturned over 

the sheet of drawing paper 

on his desk

 

It was a pencil-drawn

straight line

 

"God is a straight line,"

Fredo explained,

"that connects us

to our soul, to our community,

to our family, to each other.

What more do we need?"

 

Beginning the following Sunday,

Fredo say next to

Reverend Buddly

 

The seven-year-old boy

 was now the

Pastor's assistant

🙏

 

*** © PAUL OLIVERIO © ***

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