Preacher's Piece

We live in a world of instant everything. Russian immigrant and comedian Yakov Smirnoff said the first time he went grocery shopping in America he saw powdered milk, powdered eggs, powdered potatoes and even powdered cheddar cheese. As he took all this in he was just amazed. His translator said: “All you have to do is add water.” Then they went down the baby aisle and he picked up a container of baby powder - all he could say was: “Wow! What a country!”

We're used to instant. We don’t like waiting for anything. Some of us are worse than others when it comes to that. We also don’t like waiting...