The Conversation is a short story about a gossipy woman who finds out that being a "good Christian" is indeed a 24-hour job. Whether you are "a person of faith" or not, we all can learn from this story.
The message.
The surprise ending.
As she stood waiting to go inside the church, a woman dressed in yellow walked up and stood next to her.
” Hello,” she said, smiling over at the woman.
’Hello,” the woman said, returning her smile.
”Are you new here, I’ve never seen you before?”
”Yes, my husband and I just moved here last week,” the woman replied.
”Well, you’ll like it here it’s a nice bunch of folks.”
” Yeah, everyone seems so friendly,” the woman said.
"See her over there,” she said, pointing to a heavyset woman. “She’s on her second husband; the first one drank himself to death.”
”How terrible!” the woman replied.
’” She has three kids, and I know for sure that one of them wasn’t her husband’s.”
”You don’t say,” the woman said.