Our Guest Clarice Fluitt
CLARICE: Their zeal was out there! And so, sure enough, the Catholic priest comes out and he looked like Friar Tuck! He was about as round as he was tall. And he came out and he’d say, “Isn’t it wonderful?” Well, I didn’t know what “it” was but he was excited about whatever it was. And they preached and I had no idea. And suddenly it happened! The Greek and Hebrew choir started singing!
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: [speaking in tongues] Whoa – hoo – hoo – hoo – hoo! What is that!
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: And I mean my little spirit was saying. “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” You know like a duck that found water! And I’m sayin’ Hah! Hah! Hah! And then, sure enough, the orators were in town. “Yea! Sayeth the Lord, thy God!” I had no idea that was a prophetic word! I had no idea people were singing in tongues! I didn’t know it could be done! I’d been Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Catholic, heathen! Been all those things!
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: And they didn’t do that in any of the places that I’d been frequenting! So suddenly my spirit man is saying. “Hah! Oh, I found water!” So we – [laughs]
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: The priest gets up at the end of the day. Now listen! Listen! God wants to give you an experience! You’re wanting a doctrine. He wants to give you an invitation, not an explanation!
Am I making sense to you?
Audience: Yes! Yes!
CLARICE: So knowing that, of course, I didn’t know that at all, and we were sitting back and it went on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on! We used to have a little rhyme that says Mary had a little lamb but he never became a sheep.
Audience: [laughter]
CLARICE: He got involved with Pentecostals and died from lack of sleep! You see? [laughs]
Audience: [laughing]
CLARICE: We didn’t know that God could move till after 12 o’clock! Oh, it was incredible! So the priest gets up about 11:30 and he say, “Isn’t it wonderful?” And I have no clue of what’s goin’ on! I’ve just heard the Greek and Hebrew choir. I’d heard the orators and then the rest of the stuff. I didn’t know what they were goin’ on. Those people never took a bathroom break! Their bladder must have been this long!
Audience: [laughter]
