an original idea

For several weeks, a new believer has asked for prayer regarding his addiction to nicotine. This morning at a prayer meeting, he told us that he was able to go the last 3 days without a single cigarette. That's a big deal - and we clapped and thanked God in a happy song. Then he told us (uh, there were just 3 of us) his little plan for the rest of the nicotine-addicted believers. He wants us to go deep into the woods with all of the believers from the church. He then wants every man, woman, and child to smoke a cigarette in unison, stamp it out on the ground, and be done with cigarettes as a church "for now and forevermore." When I asked if he felt the nonsmokers needed to smoke a joe, too, he answered with an affirmative. He was so intensely convinced of this plan - and I thought it was pretty original. Then I thought of how ridiculous it would be to smoke my first and last cigarette as an M in a foreign land...and I'm getting a bit of a kick out of the idea.