It seems that August is a bit of a slow month for blogging; most of the blogs that I follow and read have averaged less than two posts this month, which I find slightly strange. So, hopefully I bring a little bit of a light and pathway to open up for a few more entries before this month is over.
I'm not sure what to begin with, maybe just a few highlights. August has been a rather interesting month. Kids Camp was something I really looked forward to this year. The formerly known as VBS, now Kids Camp (to make it seem less like 'school'), was taking a whole new turn this year because our lovely Ps. Jen can definitely see greater things with our children in the church. The week of camp ended up to be a lot of fun. I got to play some type of a hill-billy character named Skeeter for the week, and although I don't do accents, I hope the kids enjoyed my spontaneous and random creativity during the skits. The highlight of the week, though, has got to be when we went to St. Albert for our afternoon field trip for bowling. I kind of hoped that we were to do 10 pin bowling, but seeing as most of the kids probably will have trouble lifting the balls (because I do), it was only reasonable that we did 5 pin. I am most definitely proud of making two strikes in a row, before I went downhill, so it demonstrated that my first one was not a fluke. Overall, it was right up there as one of my favorite weeks of this summer.
As I've mentioned that this year happened to be weddings bonanza, I got to witness a cousin's wedding this past weekend. It was pretty sweet, especially since people have been bugging them to get married for a few years, to be able to witness someone close to my family get married, and that it was the last one for me this year. And for a change, instead of my family going down to Vancouver, we had our relatives come up for a few days. I don't really care if it is us that go down, or them that come up, all that really matters is the company; having the cousins up this time, though, really reminded me of the old days when everyone still lived in Edmonton. I have to admit that it was a really fun weekend, especially being able to the best soccer game I've played in a long time on Sunday.
God does a pretty good job at giving me a kick in the pants every now and then in order to keep me in the right place with my attitude. God is quite the comedian, with the way He works. Every single time something dramatic happens, I end up looking at myself at the end of the day and laugh a little bit because of how impressed I am at seeing the many different ways God can peck at me without having me see it coming. But my point in this is that, even though I know I used to be a very bratty and cocky kid, I don't get why you can't see it in yourself with the way you are right now. You're old enough to make decisions for yourself and, unless you're completely oblivious, which I think you could be, should know what you think you are is not what you really are. Everyone has a different way of expressing the same feelings, and I am a pretty straight forward guy, so I will seem like I am in your face all the time of letting you know I don't appreciate the way you are. When you do decide to come challenge me and make me reinforce my opinions, I have to be forced to shut up because anything and everything I say will just reinforce what you already see of me. And because I still care for your well-being, I'm not going to steroid up those thoughts and make them ten times bigger. I just hope you learn for yourself, sooner rather than later. Wish You Well - Thousand Foot Krutch: the song I have for you.
So fall is coming, what do you fall back on to make the transition a little more fun?
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