Life-teen update (11-19-2006)

Greetings once again Life-teen fans. This past week has brought excitement and fun in what can only be described as metric tons. However, since the United States does not subscribe to the metric system, and there were no Canadians handy to transcribe it over for me, I was forced to come up with my own equation for figuring out a metric of fun. First I took all of the fun we all had in the last week x 3 (the triune God had fun too) + 12 (for the apostles who were praying for our fun) + 1 guardian angel for each of us (who are God’s messengers to us on how to have fun) – 3 (for Brutus, Cascious, and Judas who are in the center of Dante’s hell and not having any fun at all) = one metric ton of fun. After figuring that we had a metric ton of fun during this past week, you all have no idea of how difficult it was to hide a metric ton of fun from our local fish and wildlife commission who state that anything over one cubic meter of fun requires a special permit do to potential ecological damage and disruption of habitat for the local mosquito population. All this aside, you may be wondering exactly how we all had so much fun this week? I am glad that you asked. First of all we must examine some of the current weather trends here in the state of Washington. While other places in the state were being washed away by flash floods, or left shivering in the dark due to power outages; we were blessed by God with at least two incredibly beautiful days of refreshingly brisk weather. When I made my weekly trek up to the high school I brought some pizza with me. This of course made my popularity instantly skyrocket. I felt like the king of the high school, benevolent and loved by all, until the pizza ran out. At this point I felt more like someone who should have brought more than four pizzas if he was planning to feed the whole of Wenatchee High School. Oh well, I managed to escape with my life and most of you were able to escape with a piece of pizza. If I ever bring pizza again I will first devise a clever way to distribute it in secret. This week I felt more like a drug dealer peddling my wares in front of the local courthouse and saying things like “psst, hey person in my youth group, do you want a piece of pizza?” If I was caught actually opening up the box I was instantly set upon by hordes of pizza deprived students, each claiming to be more hungry and and closer to starvation than the last, until the entire pizza had been ravenously (an excellent cocktail party word, but a poor cocktail party attitude) devoured. Once again I was glad that I took Juan with me. Our surly seminarian snarled smugly and silently at any suspicious students (use of alliteration will probably get you punched in the face at a cocktail party because you will appear to be a snobbish jerk, so write it, don’t say it). Ok, so Juan isn’t really surly and I don’t think he had to snarl at anyone, but he did help out the ladies in the office with his mad translation skills and he helped me set up our pizza table. When it was all said and done we were able to spread the Word of God to some of the students via our free gift of pizza, just like God shares his love with us through the free gift of himself in His Son. Juan and I decided that next time we need to make t-shirts. These past two weeks at Life-teen have been, in my humble opinion, very good. There have been a lot of questions asked and some of them have managed to slip through the cracks. For example when five people ask me questions simultaneously and when I am done answering the first one, five more completely different questions are asked, and so on, you can see how I might not answer a couple. This is not because I don’t know the answer or because your questions are not good or important, it simply stems from the fact that when things like this happen I tend to get overwhelmed by more questions than I can answer at a single time. This being said, please bring your questions to youth group. If you truly want to believe in God, than get to know him. Ask questions about him. Ask questions about the Church. Ask, ask, ask and I will continue to answer as many questions as I am able. Please remember that I don’t guarantee that you will like the answer that you will receive, only that it will be the truth. All that being said I have a few announcements about important upcoming dates. Next weekend is Thanksgiving weekend. There will be no Life-teen this weekend, as I expect many of you to be exhausted after eating as much Turkey as possible. There will also be no Confirmation class on Monday the 27. I hope you all have a great break and come back the following week completely rejuvenated and ready to talk about God. May the blessings of God rest upon each of you during this upcoming break and protect you from harm, especially if you are going to be doing any traveling.