Obadiah

First, the background...
Our sermon series in church lately is the little books of the Bible nobody ever talks about. A few weeks ago the book was Obadiah. During the sermon, I opened to Obadiah and whispered to Tucker "It's really short. You could read it all right now." And he did.

Now the story...
Tucker came in from playing outside very upset and said, "Keaton just took off on MY bike and yelled 'See ya, loser!'" It was clear he was very distraught over this terrible slight. He melted onto the couch and Trey and I continued our conversation until Keaton returned from his renegade bike ride.

A few minutes later, Keaton came in and Trey began questioning him about the slander. Of course he started in with "I didn't do anything!  I don't know what you're talking about! He was pinging me with wiffle balls!"

(So, Keaton doesn't know what Trey is asking about, yet he already has a reason as to why the thing he didn't do was justifiable bike-a-cide. Nice.)

Trey sent them both to their rooms. When he went back a few minutes later to give them one final lecture and set them free, he found Tucker reading his Bible. Trey is impressed. Obviously, Tucker has seen the error of his ways.

Once free, Tucker marches into Keaton's room, brandishing said Bible. "See!  It says it right here in Obadiah!  'You should not gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune!'"

Then they proceeded to argue about who was gloating over whom in whose misfortune.

See? They are listening in church.

(It's Obadiah 1:12 in case you know some brothers who could use it against each other.)