Such a slacker but now it's VBS

I realize I've been slacking off of late with no posts. I'm sorry. With the end of school and its related activities, Memorial Day and now VBS, I haven't had the energy.

Speaking of Vacation Bible School, it's happening this week. We're using the theme "Cowabunga Farm," so we have new friends Buttercup, Ryan, Miss Anna, Allie and Hoover. And Cletus, can't forget about him. I'm the third-grade leader this year again. Third grade is a good age, I think. They're not copping attitudes yet, but they understand rules and behaving in class. We had seven on Monday and nine yesterday and today. We were one short of perfect attendance today, which was pretty exciting.

Our Bible study is focusing on Joseph, who is a pretty interesting guy. He started out as his father's favorite son, with a multicolored coat to prove it. His 10 older brothers hated him and sold him into slavery. He was taken to Egypt and went to work in Potiphar's house. Mrs. Potiphar decided to seduce him, but he resisted and got thrown into jail for his pains when she lied about him. In jail, he interpreted the dreams of a couple of Pharoah's servants and eventually got released after interpreting Pharoah's dreams and promoted to vice-pharoah. Yes, that's a term I just invented. As vice-pharoah, Joseph was able to save the Egyptian people and his family from death by starvation during a massive and long-lived famine.

I've even learned some things, even though I've heard the story countless times. For example, when Potiphar believed his wife's lies, he could have had Joseph killed. Instead, he had him put in prison, the same prison where Pharoah's prisoners were kept. Not any ordinary prison, but the one Pharoah had his prisoners put in. This is important because the butler and baker, whose dreams he later interpreted, were Pharoah's prisoners. And I didn't realize said butler and baker were released for Pharoah's birthday. I thought that was kind of cool. The baker didn't, though.

I also found it interesting that Judah was the brother who decided to sell Joseph, but he promised to be surety for Benjamin when they made their second trip to Egypt.

It's been a good week so far. We have two days left, and I'm looking forward to seeing what God will do. Pray for us (specifically we workers/teachers), if you would. We tend to run out of energy long before the kids do.

Cowabunga, dudes!