Get 30 FREE sermons.

Sermon Illustrations > Picnic > What Fun!

What Fun!


Kathleen Partridge, quoted in Bits & Pieces, May 26, 1994, p. 7

Maybe the kettle takes longer to boil, and the ground isn't as soft as a chair. Maybe the butter runs soft in the sun, and the cake seems to wilt in the air. Maybe a wasp drowns himself in the jam, and the leaves float on top of the tea; and maybe you get a bit cramped in your foot, when you balance your plate on your knee. But you eat from a table the whole long year round, politely, from January to December, while a meal in the open air loosens your laugh and is always a joy to remember.