Holiday World with Jason and Zack today. It was sorta a spur of the moment type thing. I wasn’t sure if I was going until Thursday night. Arrived at Zack’s house at 6AM and we were up at the World by 9:45 or so.
The weather was better this time around. Not so cool. Better for the water rides. Sometimes the lines for the water slides were slightly longer than usual. At one time I saw a pregnant lady get on a water slide. Was this dangerous? I don’t know.
I saw a guy with a Chevy tatoo in the wave pool. Someone loves a corporate brand so much, they have it tattooed on their arm. It’s not that unusual. Harley Davidson tattooes show up everywhere.
And the wave pool was an experience. It had been several years since I had gone to Wave Country in Nashville. Holiday World’s wave pool is similar. The problem is that the waves can go over your head in a 5 foot depth. To compensate you have make an effort to jump just as the wave comes your way. This can tend to get very tiring.
For the most part we didn’t wait in the coaster lines for very long. And a few times the water slide lines were
At a Kroger store in Owensboro there is a place announcing “Cooking for Jesus.” I don’t know what it means exactly. I just saw a large barbecue grill near the entrance of Kroger. I picture Jesus in a chef’s hat cooking a loaves and fishes dish which would serve 5,000. (Thanks Zack for the visualization)
And it is good that other people have the same or similar frustrations which I have toward organized religion in general. And some people have trouble fitting in at church. Just like me. My church problems are not unique. Everyone at one time feels this way. Some more than others.
When you do return to church from being at college for an extended period of time, it is not unusual to find that things might have changed. Old friends from high school are no longer attending there. You have to learn to make new friends. Unfortunately churches tend to cater toward married people and youth, and unknowingly they leave others behind. Otherwise if you are single and twentysomething, you have to learn to stay busy at church if just to think to yourself that you are needed. (Even if you truly are needed or not)
I am going to Short Mountain Bible Camp today to help a friend setup for his church camp. I’m planning on coming back sometime Sunday afternoon, then coming back sometime on Wednesday. I’d very much like to stay for Sunday morning worship on the mountain. Partially because I enjoy the informal worship outdoors.