One day, Joe, Bob and Dave were hiking in a wilderness area
when they came upon a large, raging, violent river. They
needed to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to
do so.
Joe prayed to God, saying, “Please God, give me the
strength to cross this river.” Poof! God gave him big arms
and strong legs, and he was able to swim across the river
in about two hours, although he almost drowned a couple of
times.
Seeing this, Dave prayed to God, saying, “Please God, give
me the strength and the tools to cross this river.” Poof!
God gave him a rowboat and he was able to row across the
river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a
couple of times.
Bob had seen how this worked out for the other two, so he
also prayed to God saying, “Please God, give me the
strength and the tools, and the intelligence, to cross this
river.”
Poof! God turned him into a woman. She looked at the map,
hiked upstream a couple of hundred yards, then walked
across the bridge.