Footballs, Frisbees, Fun

Yesterday I went to this potluck and prayer get together with my church. We had it in a park because the weather was so amazing. After being in the sun all day, my new sunburn wasn’t doing to well, so I tried to stick to the shade as much as possible. People threw footballs around and swung on the swings and climbed some trees. It was a really cool time to just get to know people, especially for me, since I don’t really know anyone. I think potlucks are one of the great things about churches. Everyone always has a good time and it really does help build community. Maybe that is why the early church did it so much. I think churches should eat meals and hang out together regularly. And if your church is really to big to do it corporately all the time, then small groups should do it. It really makes it feel more like a family.
I also hung out with some of the kids for a while. They are just always so unthreatening. And I am always the cool guy because I am older. It is to bad that I am going to miss Youth Extreme this week. They are doing their first summer event. I guess I will have to wait a couple weeks. So I swung on the swings and stuff, and at one point I was going on the teeter-totter with the pastor’s kid. We were bouncing around having fun, commenting on how dangerous of toys they really are. Well, I don’t know what happened, but I sent him flying into the air and he landed on his head. I felt pretty bad, and a little embarrassed, but he was okay. Tough kid. But I kind of found out what it was like to be on the other side of one of those situations today.
I went over to another job site to help these two framers move and set these really big trusses. I was standing in the middle balancing them, while walking on the interior walls. Well we were bouncing it around and these other ones came lose behind me, and it just creates a big domino effect. Anyways, I was slammed down onto the floor, landing on my back. I could see how scarred the guys looked, so I instantly reassured them that I was fine. It really is a miracle that I didn’t hit my head or anything. There was a perfect gap in the trusses that I was slammed through and then I kind of half grabed/smacked the wall and fell on my back. It all happened so quickly. One minute I am standing on a wall, the next I am laying on the floor. But I am sure the guys felt really bad. We should have had the trusses braced better, but these things happen.