While Otherwise Preoccupied on a Church Pew

Connor was distracted last Sunday in anticipation of our Labor Day weekend at the Dunes.  Instead of contemplating the Sabbath or even Scripture, Connor was meditating on Sand--a lesser know spiritual study.

He was hard at work sketching out this curiously vice-laden portrayal of the Dunes:

Unfortunately for us, it appears to be an exact replica of these sort of occasional weekend camp outs.  I'm not sure he intended to point out some of the more deadly sins we commit during our dune trips but you will note he certainly drew a fair share of them:

• He's drawn his father slothfully asleep with a book
• He's got me monopolizing a friend's ipad--Greed & Envy
• His brother Mitch doing ALL the hard work, while...
• He drew himself avoiding ALL the hard work--more sloth
• Broc golfing--a sport known for encouraging dishonesty
• Mont eating M&M's: classic gluttony
• and the little girls appear to be gambling in the Skillman trailer
• He also alludes to the crime of stealing, albeit by someone else NOT in our camp.  Notice how he draws a long line connecting the quads.  That's a chain used to prevent quad theft. 

It became apparent there in that church pew that this has become the sort of scene we've etched into our young and impressionable son's memory, enough for him to draw it all its sacrilegious splendor instead of listening to a lengthy sermon against these sorts of things.

No, instead he's drawing on the back of a church program a scene we hope he'll remember long into adulthood: Those trouble times of his youth he spent at the dunes with his family, swirling about in those scandalous sand-laden scenes.

And thus the reason you'll find our family each Sunday going to church...to confess what Connor has now pointed out as our many sandy sins.