Kite
Jul 23, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Getting There
//NOISE: Ethan eating strawberries
I really appreciate Kite’s perspective. He visited Central America for the last month or so and posted his thoughts on his site. To make it easy for you, I slapped it up on YouTube. Hopefully he won’t care.
Technorati Tags: centralamerica
Quote of the Day
Jul 22, 2006 Quotes
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“When I’m an adult, I will always say ‘yes.’” – Lindsey Thompson
Elephantastic
Jul 22, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Dang it…I used my mood in the title
//ITUNES: Gone Daddy Gone from the album “St. Elsewhere” by Gnarls Barkley
(Thanks to ysmarko for this link)
July 3, 2006 (UPI) – A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college. While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot. There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.
As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen–thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later the man was walking through the zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail. The large bull elephant stared at him and lifted it’s front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times, all the while staring at the man. The man couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant.
After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.
The man summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of the man’s legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.
Probably wasn’t the same elephant.
Giving Up Hope
Jul 21, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Sad…so sad
//ITUNES: The Lady In Red by Chris de Burgh
Apparently Dan has given up the uphill battle to make his son masculine. Of his own accord, he posted this pic on his blog:
Even Jaden’s grandma told me last weekend:
“When I need to be cheered up, I go to your site to look at pictures of Jaden in girl’s clothes.”
For more photographic evidence, check out: this page or this page or this page or this page or this page.
I will say in his defense that I have a bit of a shoe fetish myself and those are fabulous shoes.
And also, in his defense, he has always been a fan of beer, as well:
Times, they are a Changin’
Jul 21, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
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11 years ago, Grace and I drove over the mountains with one teenager from our church to HSLT in Myrtle Beach. Since then, we have gone every year…
Until this year.
And every year, the teens from our church drove down in the classic 15 passenger vans. Not anymore. Now they have these pimped out rides.
They are also not going to Myrtle Beach, but to Minneapolis to serve with a group called Mission to the City with our sister church there.
Changes, changes, changes.
Bike Evolution
Jul 20, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Great
//NOISE: Kids
Jesse got a new bike,
Therefore Ethan got Jesse’s old bike,
And Coley got Ethan’s old bike:
It’s the circle of life.
Dirty Face
Jul 20, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
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Old Coach Mike
Jul 20, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
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Mike turned 4o today and he doesnt look a day over 39. (Although technically he is)
Inbox
Jul 19, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Happy as Pie
//ITUNES: The Boogie Monster from the album “St. Elsewhere” by Gnarls Barkley
Guess how many messages I have in my Inbox?
0
That has never happened. I repeat, never.
Kid’s Ministry Stuff
Jul 19, 2006 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Great
//ITUNES: Go-Go Gadget Gospel from the album “St. Elsewhere” by Gnarls Barkley
I continue to be surprised by the kid’s ministry at our church. I have to admit, I don’t understand it.
Now that my daughter is getting older, she is transitioning into the weird upper elementary / middle school style of doing things. Lots of crazy games, etc.
Now, you have to understand my history here. I suck (with a capital “SUCK”) at Middle School type of ministry. In the 3 years I did it, I grew the ministry at a church from 25 to 12.
Anyhoo…I digress. I was skeptical the day my daughter came home looking like this from church:
Drenched. From head to toe.
That night as she was going to bed, she prayed:
“Jesus, thank you that you fill me with living water.”
Wow. Super-soakers worked.
That same night, my Ethan (my five year old) prayed:
“Please help me to be patient instead of angry.”
Wow.
Not to mention the fact that because of the memorization deal they are doing at church, all my kids are excited about memorization. In fact, yesterday Emma told me that they are memorizing a verse a night before going to sleep.
