Who or what is Bompy? The term at this point may not make sense to you...well that is okay I am sure there will be things posted on here from time to time that won't make sense! But just go with it and humor me.
Have you ever despised someone in life to point you would like to remove them from your memory or recollection of even knowing them. That would be Bompy for me! I hated (maybe really dislike is a more "PC" way of saying it) this guy. Bompy was not his real name, just a nickname given to him by his grandkids. I hated him for multiple reasons. I desperately wanted to forget him and leave him in my past. Well as fate would have it I would be stuck with this name in my head and my life perhaps forever.
A good friend of mine, Shane, thought it would be amusing to have his, at the time two, now three girls call me Bompy for a laugh. They did and it was funny, like cancer is funny. In fact, I think I was the only one who didn't laugh. I tried to quickly dismiss it and have them move on to something else. Well to say the least that didn't happen. Here we are almost five years later and my nickname forever more is and will be Bompy. My youth group calls me that, our churches pre-school kids call me that and yes, Shane's girls still call me that.
You know the oddest thing about all this is that I actually embrace it now...I know it doesn't make sense to embrace something that you once hated so much. But that is life, things happen, sometimes they make sense and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you feel in control of what people can and do say about you and sometimes you don't. Sometimes you choose what people call you and sometimes you can't.
It does not make sense to those preschoolers or Shane's girls why they call me Bompy. They don't know the story, they just know it's me. That is what makes life so grand. The unexpected, sometimes unappreciated and unwanted senseless surprises make life worth living. We serve a God that loves to see His people laugh and enjoy every twist and turn of life. The thing is He doesn't even make sense to me all the time. He does things or doesn't do things that may or may not make sense to me but He does them anyway. And these seemingly senselessness moments is why I love him so much.
At the end of the day God is still God and He is good!
3 comments:
Wow...you really hit one out of the ball park for #1, wasting no time were ya, I mean word gets back to WV and then to Gary and man things could really blow up, I mean they might start talking bad about YOU now as well...haha.
Nice thoughts though man, but you should be honest with everyone or else I will have to, Bompy ONLY came out because of a certain doll name you gave to one of Kalyn's dolls, oh yea I think it was Karena...now you remember, HA!
thank you for inviting me to Bompy's world. look forward to seeing how bompy's world grows in all this senselessness. look forward to seeing him at winterfest '08.
eit hello brother how are you?
Its been a while since we don't chat, I found this page and it is nice, hope you and your wife are fine, oh sorry let me tell you who am I, I'm
Abraham Gonzalez the son of Julian Gonzalez who used to be the spanic preacher in hcc. well I remember you as a good man, friendly, and I appreiate that from you brother even if we had some problems with the lenguage, guess what? now I'm in a bible school, one more year and I finish, God is been so great with me and my family.
well brother here is my msn if you want to add me, gota870611@hotmail.com, hope we can be in contact, your brother in Christ Abrahm Gonzalez
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