Surviving My Life

The Bon-Fire

Tonight was different for me. Traditionally, my Friday nights are spent with my clan online playing Halo, or working, or out looking for work, or simply watching TV. But, tonight I went with my parents to this bonfire that my church put on.

What an event, and what fun. It was for the "youth" supposedly, but everyone from the church came anyway. And, I haven't had that much fun in awhile. You would really think that sitting around a fire with a bunch of people wouldn't be all that fun, but it was. There were about 40 people there, and it was a real blast hanging out and getting to know them more.

My friends had their daughter called them from Maryland, and right then my young friend, Zachary, who's 4 years old, told their 22 year old daughter that he wanted to marry her.

"We're gonna get married! We can get married at Toys R Us, and have peanut butter sandwiches! Go to WalMart and get the popcorn chicken!!!"

Caity was quite embarrassed on the phone. ^.^ lol!

In any case, there were pizzas, and nachos, and 800 kinds of cookies, and brownies, and - jeepers. Just TONS of food. One thing about these people - when they get together, nobody ever goes away hungry.

Those people are so nice, it just staggers me. They are some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life. From 7pm right until 11pm, we were there shooting the breeze, enjoying the rather large fire that I built with some of the younger guys, and they even busted out some acoustic guitars and started horsing around. Traditionally, I frown upon that sort of thing. The minute a guitar shows up when a bunch of Christians are at an event where there's fire, instantly, unsaved people think we're about to start singing "Kumbaya", followed by a nice snake-handling session, with a goat sacrifice.

However, this time, suprisingly, they started playing the Jamiroque tune from Napoleon Dynamite, while one of them danced the actual dance that Napoleon performed on stage.

One would think it would be impossible to dupicate that song - but these two guys did it - and one had a 12 string guitar. It's definetly one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

For those that read regularly, you know that I struggle every day with my past and coming to grips with what I did. Not a minute goes by that I don't regret it. I screwed up, and I lost my friends. There isn't really anyone at this church that is my age, (the young people are all 18 and under), but I still know that this is where I belong now.

In any case, it was a wonderful evening, and I can't wait until we do it again. Sunday is a party at the church, and there is going to be a huge dinner.

I swear...any excuse they can come up with to have food, they do it.

God bless them.

posted by Jeremiah @ 10:48