Mooing When They Ought to Be Cooing

THE STORY is told of two women who escaped from prison. They were running, and of course, when the guards discovered that they had escaped, they went after them with dogs to follow their scent and to track them down.

The two women heard the barking in the distance and knew the guards and dogs were closing in. Panicking and needing to do something, the first lady decided to climb a tree and hide. The second lady decided to follow her lead and she climbed a tree located about fifty feet away. The dogs arrived and picked up the scent at the first tree.

They began to jump up on the tree and bark loudly. The first lady up the tree was of course panicking because she had been located, but ingeniously, she began to make cooing sounds: “Coo, coo, coo.”

The prison guard jerked the dog back from the tree and said, “Come on, let’s go, it’s nothing but a dumb bird up there.” She had deflected the dog. When the guards and the dogs arrived at the second tree, they picked up the scent of the second woman.

Now, the second woman heard what the first woman had done. So she began to think, “What sound can I make to throw off the scent of the dogs?” She thought for a minute as the dogs jumped on the tree and then it hit her.

She said, “Moo, moo, moo.” Cows don’t live in trees. When you’re confused on your role, you wind up making the wrong noise, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.

A lot of women are making a lot of noise complaining about their husbands and complaining about what’s wrong with their man, when they have forsaken and neglected their biblical roles. They are mooing when they ought to be cooing.