When Sin Doesn't Make the Papers

Every week I deliver a biblical and counter-cultural message to our congregation, often challenging the ways of our world, the problem of insurmountable sinfulness in humanity and in each of our hearts, and pointing to God who became flesh as the answer and end of all our searches for meaning and escape from the consequences of our sin.

But I only make it into the local paper when a 1 inch hole pops through a water main on our street causing nearly no real problems or issues.

Comments

[Pete Williamson]

what? you tellin' me you don't have video for this?

[Steve McCoy]

haha, nope

[Lee Klimek]

Steve, haven't you already exhausted your 15 minutes? :)

[Scott Lamb]

Steve,
At the risk of being accused of brown-nosing the blog-master, I have seen similar stories with residents saying the exact opposite of how you were quoted. You know the type- a dead squirrel isn't scraped up within 24 hours and people are calling for the head of the Street Department.

You may be "at the end of a dead-end road" why does that sound like a place where drug addicts live?), but your sense of humor -"Some school kids who walk through our backyard had to jump over it, so that was kind of funny." - is shalom in a world that loves to complain.

"It was no big deal," McCoy said. "It was just a little bit of an inconvenience time-wise."

Subtle salt from Steve coming through in print

Ok, kissing up time is over.

[Scott Lyons]

"Some school kids who walk through our backyard had to jump over it, so that was kind of funny."

Preach it, brother.

[Wes H]

Steve,
This isn't the first time that you've made the local paper though. I remember about a year ago you had a letter published in the editorial section responding to a Universalist pastor in the area. Weren't you also in a picture taken in front of Starbuck's a while back too?

Face it. You're a celebrity, and you're just too humble to admit it. ;)

[Mark]

Steve,

Was there enough water to form a small hockey rink? Now that would be awesome!

[Steve McCoy]

Nice. A whole blog's worth of comedians. :)

My letter to the editor is here. I haven't written one since.

It wasn't enough water for hockey, but one girl dropped her scarf in the water which was pretty cool.

The picture of me at Starbucks was in our local, hometown paper, while the above story is in a larger, suburban paper. If you look close enough, you can see I'm reading Frost and Hirsch.

[Steve McCoy]

Oh, and thanks for the nice comment Scott Lamb. It was obvious when I received the call from the reporter that they were looking for something more interesting. "Was your house damaged?" "Was it hard to get out of your driveway?"

I thought the city workers did a good job and I wanted to make sure I said so. But they didn't put that part in the story.

[Adam L. Feldman]

You should have blamed FEMA... a lot of that seems to be going on lately...

[joe kennedy]

yes, yes, adam's right. this is ALL mike brown's fault!

[Julie (a.k.a. Sis)]

Steve? A local celebrity? Poor Pontiac's loss is Woodstock's gain...

What, Steve-- no links to all your golf glory-stories from the Pantagraph or Leader?

*wink wink!*

At least you didn't trip over the puddle and sprain your ankle... tee-hee-hee!