Joshua and Caleb attended Clown Camp this week at the YMCA. My first thought when I heard about the idea as “you have to teach a six year how to clown around?” – it seems to come natural. But they loved this past week. And yes, there are some things that should only be done by “professionals” For example, they learned the traditional ‘slap.’ Joshua and Caleb were shown by a professional how to fake a slap and how to receive a fake slap. When the boys showed us, we laughed, but later when H-G tried to do what she saw her brothers do she actually slapped Kimberly in the face (which wasn’t funny). So they learned how to do the slap, stomp a foot, the elevator behind a sheet trick, and many other gags and tomfoolery.

I am currently studying Ecclesiastes in my quiet time and one of the things that has stood out in the first seven chapters is that we should enjoy life while you can, because you don’t know what the future holds. So this week there was much laughter in our home.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 “In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.”

Sunday was our Preschool Pool and Pop for our children’s ministry. The Preschoolers came with swimsuits and towels. We set up tents, kiddy pools, little tables, and the kids had a blast. Hannah-Grace came up to me after church and was all smiles. She couldn’t wait to tell me all about what they did that morning. This is the way I think church should be. Afterwards everyone should desire to run around with huge smiles on their faces, where they can’t wait to tell others what they had experienced. Church should be fun (period). It has been said, “If you want to bore someone read them Shakespeare, not the Bible.” –Amen. The Bible is a living and breath taking book, that if you truly put in the discipline to study it, it blows you away. We are a people of this book.