Nov 15, 2007 16:41
My bible study with Church is doing Velvet Elvis. This guy who wrote it is hilarious. First page, he mentions his son figuring out a trick to be able to go higher:
When my wife was watching for the first time, something freakish happened in the space-time continuum. When he jumped, there was this perfect convergence of his weight and my weight and his jump and my jump, and I'm sure barometric pressure and air temperature had something to do with it too, because he went really high. I don't mean a few feet off the mat. I mean he went over my head. Fourty lbs of boy , clawing the air like a cat thrown from a second-story window.
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(some words about how unsafe blahblah)
It is on this trampoline that God has started to make more sense to me.'
I could not help but laugh and laugh hard. I work as a switchboard operator until tomorrow. Just so happens, as I'm reading/laughing hard, a call comes in. I have to wait.
And now, I'm remembering two incidents involving me+trampoline.
1. When I was about 8 or 9, an ambulance was called to my friend Jillian's house. We were jumping on the trampoline and I heard something crack in my back. I remember the ambulance guys. I remember *sorta* being loaded in. Then I remember fighting something (I usually do this when injected with stuff that makes you go sleep). Next thing I remember, I was talking to doc with my parents. Freaked/freaks me out. My mom says she didn't get a bill for anything that woulda made me pass out.
2. When I was 13, two friends and i were jumping on a trampoline. I jumped almost off, but landed in between the bar and the stretchy part that you jump on. by in between, I mean, my head was level with my feet, I was holding onto the bar, and my backside was at the ground. woot.
Now, is that how God is? Catching you by suprise? :P Yeah. Probably.