Untitled Sermon

entitlement, unrealistic expectation, lack of gratitude

A woman and her son are walking down the beach… when a huge wave crashes onto them…. and when it clears… the woman looks down… and her son is gone.

She falls to her knees and then she looks up to the sky and she says, “Please, I… I … I am begging you, I can’t live without him, he’s everything to me.

Whoever is up there, whoever can hear me …please send my son back to me…. alive.

Just then she looks up at the horizon, and an albatross appears in the sky. It follows a ray of sunshine from the clouds onto the water, and it dives under the surface.

When it emerges, the boy is riding on its back.

So, it flies to the beach and it gently deposits the boy at its mother’s feet.

And the woman, looks at the boy… and then she looks to the sky… and she says, “He had a hat.”

fx show “the Old Man” episode 5, actress Alia Shawkat