EDIT: Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence because everyone over there is full of crap... that went over well... about as well as Aaron Shust on the Logan Show... if you are unfamiliar with either of those two things... it is a dreadful musical guest on a dreadful talk show... anyway... if you ever get stung by a jellyfish... volunteer to help teach your chuch's 3 year old Sunday School class... yeah... well, Friends fans know where i'm going with this i'm sure... but we had nine children in our class today... generally this is quite manageable... however, we had two visitors this week... again, generally not too bad... of course, one of these visitors was afflicted with an incessant whine and cry... being the nice compassionate teacher that i am... i tried to console this boy, by letting him sit on my lap during the story time... still the whimpering continued... after a little bit of time one of the most horrifying thought occurred to me... and none too soon... apparently, however, it was some too late... yes... it was not long after this thought occurred when it was gone and replaced by the inner voice of my mind screaming, yes screaming... "HE'S PEEING ON MY LEG! MY GOODNESS, HE'S PEEING ON MY LEG!!!!"... yes... that was the case... my leg was being assaulted by that warm fluid that... well... i think that's enough... we dealt with the situation accordingly... got a new set of pants for the boy and moved on with the lesson... Me, i thank God for Haggar and their spectacular "spill proof" pants as well as Kiwi and their waterproofing spray for shoes... because of these two remarkable products, the damages were minimal for me... my socks, though must be burned... the other visiting boy had an accident as well, but he was kind enough to keep it to himself... Oddly enough, this horrific event was a pretty decent visual example of the lesson that we had discussed in our adult Sunday School lesson the previous church hour... see, we were working through 1 John... actually, we just started it... so 1 John 1-2:17ish... and John talks a lot about walking in the light as opposed to living in darkness... and we discussed the implications of "fronting" or pretending that we are walking rightly with God or even sinless... "If we claim that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us"... even worse... "if we claim to be without sin, we make [God] out to be a liar and his word has no place in our hearts"... you know... both of these options are not very good... or i should say... neither of these options are very good... i think that sounds better... anyway... the point is that we can pretend all that we want... that we aren't as bad as others... that we don't have any need to confess our sins... that we don't commit any "serious" sins... many different things... but the outcome is not desirable... we will have no place in God's presence... the more we deny our need for Him, the less place we leave for Him in our lives... scary thought... So... since you probably don't think like i do, you may be wondering what on earth this has to do with the "accident" incident... well, here goes... because of the two wonderful products i had utilized as part of my outfit today, nobody that i encountered today had any clue of what had happened to me during Sunday school... on the surface, i appeared to be wearing clean pants, socks and shoes... however, though i seemed to be an acceptable member of the community, the truth was that i had socks that were very much defiled and warranted being excommunicated from society... anyway, that's the way i see it... it may comfort you to know that i don't actually lead the lessons for the three-year olds... i just keep the peace usually... currently listening to: Brian Littrell - Welcome Home keeping an eye on...
peace... love... bdg... |
07 May, 2006
Jellyfish stings and burning socks...
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