Avoiding Evil

I took my youth group to play paintball today. We had the most people that has ever gone before which was 26 kids and adults with semi-automatic guns shooting at each other. What a blast. It is defiantly an expensive sport, but well worth the fun and excitement. I really enjoyed it, even though I was plummeted with paintballs several times. I managed to make it through the entire 5 hours without any cuts or bruises, until I got back to the church.

We had a few leftover hot dogs, after roasting them over a big ole fire out at the paintball fields, so I decided to cook me a couple before I went home. I came upstairs to check my e-mail and eat my hot dogs. Here is a word of advice, don’t eat your hot dog filled with mustard, ketchup, and relish over the top of your cordless keyboard. Needless to say a big ole blop of ketchup and relish flopped out of my hot dog bun and covered the letters g and h on my keyboard. I sat in disbelief for a good five minutes before it hit me that I should clean it up. I took a pair of scissors and began popping off keys one at a time trying to clean up this nasty mess with a Kleenex cause I didn’t bring any napkins upstairs. In the middle of popping off keys the scissors slipped and sliced my finger wide open and blood came pouring out. I make it all the way through paintball uninjured and end up slicing my finger half off when I get back to the Church. *sigh* So my second word of advice is don’t use scissors to pop your keys off when you do not take my first word of advice and plop food in your keyboard.

Pressed

Comments
Ummm… Wow is all I have to say. You are just a comedy of errors aren’t you. So when are you going to start taking journalism classes?
Posted by: Christopher on November 16, 2002 08:14 AM

Never. You get to proof read all of my stuff.
Posted by: Pressed on November 16, 2002 08:57 AM

God has brought you so far Mr. Tanner! I have shared with you how amazed I have been with your writing abilities. Now, God is giving you another outlet along with your BLOG to serve Him and glorify HIS name through the written word! Praise God for faithful followers like you!! I pray for God’s continuance in equipping you with the ability, wisdom, courage,and strength to serve and glorify Him in whatever medium He brings before you. It is awesome to see ways God is getting to use you all because you said, “Yes, Lord!” You are a walking testimony. Posted by: Kim on November 16, 2002 09:01 AM

Heh.. Someday I’ll have to blog about having my nose broken by an 11 year old girl in the church camp swimming pool… Sounds like just another day in the life of a youth pastor, pressed. Keep it up!
Posted by: sakamuyo on November 16, 2002 11:55 AM

Way to go being bloged about in blogs4God
Posted by: Michael on November 16, 2002 09:26 PM

Congrats on the newspaper offer. I am proud and very excited for you. A word of advice: scissors (n - a hand-held cutting instrument made up of two crossed connected blades, each with a ring-shaped handle, that cut as they slide and pivot) is how you spell your non-word “siccors”. Just teasing you buddy!!! I love you and your cut finger!
Posted by: Jim Shultz on November 16, 2002 10:34 PM

Oh, I forgot. I can’t expect cleverness and correct spelling from a MoBap grad… DANG IT!!! I’m a MoBap grad.
Posted by: Jim Shultz on November 16, 2002 10:35 PM

Hey you get what you pay for around here. Besides it looks to me like I spelled it right, I don’t know what in the world your talking about… Posted by: Pressed on November 17, 2002 07:07 AM

What the heck is a BLOG? Anyway–just focus on the positive….you made it 5 hours with a paintball gun and no injuries! That’s an accomplishment for a youth pastor!!! Keep up the great work! God is going to bless you big time!!!
Posted by: Jami on November 19, 2002 10:09 PM