White and Puffy...
no, not cotton fields, just my finger. It's damaged.
So, I experienced my first martyrdom-like activity. As I lazed about Wednesday afternoon, my cousin comes in sick and complaining of stomach-aches. As she stumbles in and runs for the bathroom, her mom kindly reminds her to feed the dog. No fear, I'll take her burden upon my back and couragously hurl a can of dog food outside and feed that which had been starved for a few hours. Well, to my demise, I found myself exerting maximum amounts of strength and speed in my de-canning techniques. After my task had been completed, I found the tip of my ring finger dangling painfully. The dog was most disgruntled because I had failed to transfer the food from the can to the dish before I had run inside to fetch assistance. No worries... Ellie just ate out of the can. She could rough it just this once I suppose. Caralon and Valerie wasted no time rushing me to the 5 bed hospital of Alvin. Its small size proved helpful because there was no line. I was in and out in 1hr and 1/2. Those people...love 'em to death. Caralon says that the chick at the counter totally dug me. She was cute. Perhaps I'll call again.
Our leadership retreat last weekend was pretty awesome! It was all thrown together at the last minute, but it came out so well because of all the dedication and hard work put into by the adults who went along with it. My favorite part was when reenacted the Last Supper. Candles lit the room as we sat on the floor and ate a typical passover meal. We even read some scripture and remenisced about what the Last Supper was about. Then we had a ceremonial feet washing. It was inmportant since this was a leadership retreat. As Christ showed, a influential spiritual leader must be willing to do humbling acts of servitude. The ACOC kids are awesome. I'm glad God has them around.
Wednesday was too early of a morning. I awoke around 5 in the morn and stumbled up to the church building. Yeah, stumbling around in a car during the drive is quite disturbing. I got stares. We fired up the griddles and produced bacon, sausage, and pancakes for all High School students alike. You see, it was the annual pancake breakfast. An awesome way to start off the high school year. After eating and time came, we packed up the current high school students in the church van and made haste as we traveled 2 blocks in 20 minutes. No...it really happened. However, little did our high school sweethearts know that the adults, high school graduates, and myself had a wee little plan asunder. We weren't just going to light candles and standby silently as the kids exited the van. Actually, we turned up the cheesy, accordian filled, mexican radio station to the max, rolled-down the windows and screamed out everything we can think of. "GOODBYE SNUFFLE BUNNY","SCHOOL ROCKS, YEAH!","WE"LL MISS YOU!!". and the dreaded "WE LOVE YOU!" all while the horn and lights are activated. Heads were turned... it was great. However embarrassed they were... alteast people wanted to know who they were and where those crazy Jesus people in the green church van came from. They walked out of the van knowing they were loved.... awe, tear. Later that morning, we did the same for the middle school kids. They were embarrassed too. It's really funny how things quite down when a loud bunch passes a cop. Windows miraculously roll up and radio music turns down by half. Gotta respect, right?
I just wanna give a shout out to Jessica Phillips. She's had a rough couple of days, but she's been lifted up to the Father. Hey, can you ask Him to help Jessica out a lil. Thank God He's there to be able to make things better.
Because of the Messiah who is cool,
Potter
So, I experienced my first martyrdom-like activity. As I lazed about Wednesday afternoon, my cousin comes in sick and complaining of stomach-aches. As she stumbles in and runs for the bathroom, her mom kindly reminds her to feed the dog. No fear, I'll take her burden upon my back and couragously hurl a can of dog food outside and feed that which had been starved for a few hours. Well, to my demise, I found myself exerting maximum amounts of strength and speed in my de-canning techniques. After my task had been completed, I found the tip of my ring finger dangling painfully. The dog was most disgruntled because I had failed to transfer the food from the can to the dish before I had run inside to fetch assistance. No worries... Ellie just ate out of the can. She could rough it just this once I suppose. Caralon and Valerie wasted no time rushing me to the 5 bed hospital of Alvin. Its small size proved helpful because there was no line. I was in and out in 1hr and 1/2. Those people...love 'em to death. Caralon says that the chick at the counter totally dug me. She was cute. Perhaps I'll call again.
Our leadership retreat last weekend was pretty awesome! It was all thrown together at the last minute, but it came out so well because of all the dedication and hard work put into by the adults who went along with it. My favorite part was when reenacted the Last Supper. Candles lit the room as we sat on the floor and ate a typical passover meal. We even read some scripture and remenisced about what the Last Supper was about. Then we had a ceremonial feet washing. It was inmportant since this was a leadership retreat. As Christ showed, a influential spiritual leader must be willing to do humbling acts of servitude. The ACOC kids are awesome. I'm glad God has them around.
Wednesday was too early of a morning. I awoke around 5 in the morn and stumbled up to the church building. Yeah, stumbling around in a car during the drive is quite disturbing. I got stares. We fired up the griddles and produced bacon, sausage, and pancakes for all High School students alike. You see, it was the annual pancake breakfast. An awesome way to start off the high school year. After eating and time came, we packed up the current high school students in the church van and made haste as we traveled 2 blocks in 20 minutes. No...it really happened. However, little did our high school sweethearts know that the adults, high school graduates, and myself had a wee little plan asunder. We weren't just going to light candles and standby silently as the kids exited the van. Actually, we turned up the cheesy, accordian filled, mexican radio station to the max, rolled-down the windows and screamed out everything we can think of. "GOODBYE SNUFFLE BUNNY","SCHOOL ROCKS, YEAH!","WE"LL MISS YOU!!". and the dreaded "WE LOVE YOU!" all while the horn and lights are activated. Heads were turned... it was great. However embarrassed they were... alteast people wanted to know who they were and where those crazy Jesus people in the green church van came from. They walked out of the van knowing they were loved.... awe, tear. Later that morning, we did the same for the middle school kids. They were embarrassed too. It's really funny how things quite down when a loud bunch passes a cop. Windows miraculously roll up and radio music turns down by half. Gotta respect, right?
I just wanna give a shout out to Jessica Phillips. She's had a rough couple of days, but she's been lifted up to the Father. Hey, can you ask Him to help Jessica out a lil. Thank God He's there to be able to make things better.
Because of the Messiah who is cool,
Potter
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Embarassment and 'cheesiness' of kids makes it always interesting. The kids embarass the adults/parents when their little and then when the kids get older they get embarassed by the parents. It's a two-way street!
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You're really too nice to be a male you know. You're probably one of my fav. people to talk to man, and I appreciate your post sooo much! Love ya,
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