oh, Teedie

ran across this delightful story in "Mornings on Horseback" today, and just had to share-

"When Teddy was a very small child, his older sister Mittie had found he was so afraid of the Madison Square Church that he refused to set foot inside if alone and so she pressed him to tell her why. He was terrified, she discovered, of something called the "Zeal." It was crouched in the dark corners of the church ready to jump at him, he said. When she asked what a Zeal might be, he said he was not sure, but thought it was probably a large animal like an alligator or a dragon. He had heard the minister read about it from the Bible.

Using a concordance, she read him those passages containing the word "zeal" until suddenly, very excited, he told her to stop.

"And his disciples remembered that it was written,

The Zeal of thy house hath eaten me up"

John 2:17