[5] foods i hated as a kid but now enjoy

- mayonnaise
- whole wheat bread
- sushi
- asparagus
- blue cheese

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[5] favorite movies

- kill bill
- tombstone
- braveheart
- 28 days later
- a mighty wind/this is spinal tap/best in show (tie)

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[5] best concerts i’ve been to

- U2
- Nickel Creek
- New York Philharmonic
- David Crowder*Band
- Alice Cooper/KISS (tie)

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IMPACT this week

summer started off a bit slow, but now it’s full tilt until school starts again. this wednesday we leave for IMPACT with 75+ middle and high school students. i’m pumped with the expectation the God will be doing amazing things in the lives of our students. today and tomorrow are final meetings, personal packing, last minute purchasing, calling kids, and loading trucks. then i’m leaving early to get back in time to lead our worship team sunday morning.

as much as i’d love to post pictures throughout the week, we don’t even have running water – so they’ll come when we return. in the meantime, pray for our group and enjoy the weeks pre-planned posts.

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things that cause me to lose my patience

1. incorrect use of the self check out line
2. drivers pulling out in front of me, then driving 10 mph under the limit
3. getting poked in the eye
4. when my dog decides he’d rather defecate on the floor instead of the grass he was just on
5. pickles

p.s. i once stood in line behind a woman with two full carts in the self check-out; it rang up to over $120. she should have been arrested on the spot.

[sunday night @ our youth meeting i talked about patience. our icebreaker/intro in small groups was to list the top 5 things that make you lose your patience]

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quoting [Martin Luther]

“Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest
treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds hearts, and
spirits…a person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of
God…does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted
to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.”

Martin Luther

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it’s dangerous

yesterday at our Creative Kids Camp, i got a call i wasn’t expecting. it was from my friend running our culinary arts program for kids. i picked up and he said, “karl, i don’t know what to do. i need you up here now.” that complete with screaming in the back. all i could think of was a severed hand on a cutting board. thankfully it wasn’t that. a trip to the ER, a few stitches later, and our injured student was all good and ready to come back. so what did i learn from yesterday?

- those medical release forms really are important
- not only do you need a first aid kit, you need to know where it is
- trouble never comes at a convenient or expected time
- there are times when action is needed immediately, and we have to be prepared to act

our pastor came in this morning and took me aside. he told me, “now you know that part of your job is to make sure no one gets injured; and the only way to do that is to not do any ministry at all.” then the smile. “ministry is dangerous.” you know what - it is.

got milk?

why is it that after i eat ice cream, all i want to drink is milk? how does that even make sense?

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