engage me

engage me

engage me in the loss of control call trust

this was the tattoo that wrapped around the arm of the young lady who served my coffee today. it thought it was an interesting and mostly accurate way of defining “trust.” the problem is that i’m not sure how often i am really ready to give up control in the name of trust. i enjoy having control. i feel better when things are within my control. of course, i probably grow better when i’m willing to give up that control but growth is risky. sometimes i would rather not risk anything.

of course, other times i just jump. i hope the jumping times out weight the controlling times.

left behind vbs

i love lark news. today they posted an fun little ditty on vbs material based off of the “left behind” junk. here’s part of it.

When Sandy Durant learned her church was going to host a Left Behind vacation Bible school, she was overjoyed. Her children loved the Left Behind Kids series, and she and her husband had read the entire adult series.
But when she arrived to find her children gone on the last day of VBS she “absolutely flipped out.”
It didn’t help to learn that it was all a ruse designed to show people what it would feel like to have a loved one snatched away in the Rapture.

you can read the rest of it here. i think my favorite part is when one of the fathers picks up a welcome desk and throws it into the wall trying to get his chilcdren back.