Crossing The River

 
One day,  three men were hiking and unexpectedly came upon a large raging, violent river. They needed to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to do so. The first man 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, after almost drowning a  couple of times.

Seeing this,  the second man 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.

The third man 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." And  poof!  God turned him into a woman. She  looked at the map, hiked upstream a couple of hundred  yards, then walked across the bridge.