Repent

There was a tradesman, a painter called Wayne, who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often would thin down paint to make it go a little bit further.

As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local Church decided to do a big restoration job on the painting the outside of their Parish Centre. Wayne put in a bid, and because his price was so low, he got the job.

And so he set to erecting the trestles and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.

Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder.  The sky opened and the rain poured down, washing the thinned paint off the Parish Centre and knocking Wayne clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.

Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: "Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke...

"Repaint! Repaint!  And thin no more!"

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