look out below!

one of my favorite new ministry tools is a 10-gallon water cooler.
students are always asking to leave the youth room to go get a drink of water- i can’t blame them- we do a lot of strenuous activity in those rooms. the water cooler helps them get a drink without having to get out of sight.

anyhow-
the youth room is on the second story of the church- and every Sunday, and every Tuesday, i dump the unused water out of the water cooler over the stairs and into a dirt area below the stairs. its something i sort of look forward to, because it makes a big splash, and mud flies everywhere.
and of course, every time i check to see if someone is down there; and no one ever is;
well, i shouldn’t say that no one EVER is-

so Sunday morning, church lets out, and we start to tear everything down.
i go to dump out the bucket, and as i’m about to dump it, i see this high school girl who just got a tattoo. i said, “hey! i saw your pictures!”
“what pictures?!”
“the ones of your ink!” i said.
“what?!”
“your ink!”
as i said that, i dumped the cooler over the edge.
people in the parking lot started freaking out, falling on the ground laughing and pointing.
they were calling my name, “ROB! oh my gosh!”

for the first time ever, someone was below my water cooler as i dumped it out.
it was a little guy.
he got soaked with water and mud.
what was he doing down there?
i have no idea?
who was he? what happened to him?
i’ve got no clue.

sorry little guy-
i should have looked.

the moral of the story is:
look before you dump-
don’t play in the dirt under stairs
and don’t get tattooed.