Severe Salmon

Today during lectio group, while reading aloud the parable of the prodigal son

from Luke's gospel, I tripped over my own tongue and instead of saying,

"When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country"

I said,

"When he had freely spent everything, a severe salmon struck that country."

Of course we all laughed, but as I made my way through

the rest of the reading I could only imagine
what being attacked by a severe salmon would look like

and how it would strike some poor unsuspecting country.

I don't know about you but I think I would rather suffer the famine

than face the prospect of being smacked around by

some severe salmon?

photo from here