In our Church, during the Lenten season, the 40 days beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Morning, we generally abstain from one of life's particular pleasures, such as Meat, Chocolate, Caffeine, etc., for the entire 40-day period. One young Couple, Newlyweds, who had only been married for three months and who wanted to show their true Devotion to the Lord, chose to abstain from Sex.

As the young man, Billy, related the story to us during the Weekly Breakfast following Easter Sunday, they had a terrible time maintaining their Pledge of Abstinence. It seems that the first week went fairly smoothly, however, by the second week, they had taken to Billy sleeping on top of the sheets, while Cindy, his young wife, slept under the sheets. By the third week, it was obvious that even more drastic measures were needed. For the rest of the time, they agreed that Cindy would lock herself in the main Bedroom before Billy arrived home from work each evening, and that she would not come out until Billy had left for work the next day. Although they dreaded being separated from one another, they both agreed that in order to maintain their Abstinence, that this was the only solution.

As you would well imagine, at the first hint of Sunrise on Easter morning, Cindy heard a tap, tap, tap on the Bedroom door. As she wiped the sleep from her eyes, the gentle tapping became a persistent knocking. In her sweetest, sexiest voice, Cindy called out, "I bet I know what you're knocking for!". Immediately, and somewhat more desperately, Billy replied, "Yes, but I just bet that you don't know what I'm knocking with!".