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You Need Mercy!!
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 30, 2020 (message contributor)
One day, a woman who occasionally walked through the park after work, stopped to have her picture taken by a photographer. She was very excited to see the photo, but when she looked at it, her face dropped. She turned to the photographer and stated rather sharply, “This is not right! This is not right! You have done me no justice!”
The man looked at the picture and then looked at her and said, “Ma'm, to be honest, you don’t need justice……
what you need is mercy!”
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