The Holt Blog

I was on the way home from Young Life last night and I kind of tried to beat the yellow light off the exit. Of course there was a cop there and I got pulled over. Luckily, he didn’t give me a ticket.

I deserved a ticket, I guess… Sometimes I get a little prideful and think stuff like “I go the speed limit and no one else does.” But then the minute I do something wrong I get pulled over. Well, I’m glad that they’re enforcing the law, even if I get a ticket. In fact, I think they should give out more tickets to people like me who run lights

Yes, I fixed something. Our hot water heater is new and had been turned down so that our showers were cold on the hottest setting. So I spent about an hour in the basement trying to adjust it. I felt like everything had a label that said “If you touch this, you will probably die.” So I was pretty careful and switched two sets of breakers first. Then I took off the outer cover, two layers of insullation, and fiddled with the six knobs. I could do it now in 10 minutes, but this was intense because I was reading everything and scared of electric shock and death from scalding.

Now, it’s off to the MA distribution center for my first day of training as a postman.

It went pretty well for my first talk. The leaders were very encouraging and gave me a few pointers. The “Sin Talk” is a bit challenging in that you have to let a bunch of people know that they are not perfect and have a need for forgiveness. I used the story from Luke 5 about the paralytic – Jesus addresses the man’s sins before he heals the guy.

Jill’s talking at the Young Life banquet this Thursday. Then on Monday I’m giving my first club talk ever. The topic is “Sin”. And the regional director will be there. Oh boy. The Holt family is gonna need some divine words of wisdom this week!

Jill’s best two quotes of the day:

1. (In reference to something I tried on) “That looks tri-sexual.”

2. “Is the moon bigger than the Earth? It’s way bigger, right?”

oh man….my cats are soooo cute! Here it the newest position Sarah pulled off!

and my homo sapien cuties!!

With cloudy senses
A sick Ben writes a program
Snot factory nose

-A haiku by Ben Holt