KOTH: Hank's Unmentionable Problem #7

All Jesus did that day was tell stories--a long storytelling afternoon.

Hank's Unmentionable Problem #7 (rank #24) 2/23/1997



When Hank is constipated, everyone wants to offer an opinion on how to cure it. After a humiliating visit to a proctologist, he is told that unless his condition improves, his colon will have to be surgically removed. Peggy makes Hank change his diet and his living habits in an attempt to become regular again, but Hank decides he'd rather die with a burger in his colon than live and eat faux-fu.

Quotes:

Hank: (in the health food store) Do you have anything that tastes good? Health Food Store Owner: Uhh...no. Hank: I would rather die with a burger in my colon than live eating faux-fu.

Dale: "This one's guaranteed to work. You take a spoonful of baking grease..." Hank: "I am not eating baking grease!" Dale: "You didn't let me finish."

Doctor: "If you could stretch your father's intestine out, it would go around the world." Hank: "Wait a second. A piece of steak would have to shoot through at the speed of sound."

Analysis:

Hank struggles with issues of pride over the embarrassment of what he deems to be a very personal & private problem. His issues with people knowing more about him than he'd like does nothing but make matters worse as his condition exacerbates. Hank becomes so gun-shy, that he'd rather not get advice or help of any kind.

12Know-it--alls don't like being told what to do;
they avoid the company of wise men and women.

Hank is pushed to the brink & doesn't experience release until he finally opens up to Peggy. This emotional release seems to get things moving & it isn't long at all until Hank's unmentionable problem is resolved. There's a lot to be said for living transparently and the release of being freed from the emotional baggage that usually accompanies our all too valued secrecy.

Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

"Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you."

Living a life that is freedom filled is a great start to the kind of life that Christ promises when He speaks of providing 1 of more abundance. There is no greater testimony than a life such as this. No amount of apologetics can equal this very tangible evidence of His love for us.

The glory of God is man fully alive.

St. Iraneus