Confessions of a Pastor 1 (of 4)

Posted by Scott Williams
11 Comments
November 17, 2008
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DEEP SLEEP

I thought I would dedicate this week to getting real open and honest with the BigIsTheNewSmall.com readers by sharing some Confessions of a Pastor… and that Pastor would be me.  Some of what I share this week may make you laugh, make you cry… or may get me fired.  Here goes the first confession:

One Sunday afternoon several years ago my son Wesley (who was around seven years old at the time) and I were on our way home, prior to me having to return to the Sunday Evening Church Experience.  I needed to run in the grocery store real quick to pick up some cough medicine and cough drops.  I parked up close and decided to leave my son in the car while I ran inside the store real quick.  Being the awesome parent that I am; I told my son to lock the doors, because I was going to leave the keys in the car while I ran inside the store real quick.  My son said “cool” because he was watching a movie.

Five minutes (or less :-) )  later I return to the car and my son is knocked out sleep (I mean not responding to banging on the window, yelling, rocking the SUV Deep Sleep) with the movie headphones on, car running and doors locked. 

Not a fun call to my lovely wife who is a Child Welfare Social Worker. 

BTW- I did’nt receive the “Parent of The Year Award” that year!

Thoughts on my confession? Any confessions you want to share? 

  • http://cari-okie.blogspot.com Cari Ogden

    Thanks for the laugh first thing on a Monday. My husband once “lost” our two year old daughter in a store. Full out panic before he found her wandering out the front door of the store toward the parking lot. He didn’t tell me about it until she was a teenager.

  • http://www.jennifercady.blogspot.com/ jenn cady

    My mom did this with my brothers.. When she ran in the store real quick…They put the car in Drive and crashed into the store window…not hard but at idle speed and it broke the window. No one got hurt or was sued (that would NEVER happen today)…Now it is just one of our funny “Classic” family stories.

  • http://manymeadows.com Robin Meadows

    haha…thanks for the story—It’s GREAT! Ask Anna about us going off and leaving her alone at a store :) (she was 3) Or Katie about leaving her asleep in the nursery at church and not discovering it until we were on our way home.

    We great parents must stick together!! :)

  • JUDY

    As a pastor’s wife, I can’t tell you how many people have forgotten their children and we would have to wait until they returned to church to get them….must be common…Scott, tell my boy his Mom said good morning!!!!!

  • http://www.youravon.com/jmartorelli RJMartorelli

    Thanks for that story, man! I can only imagine the panic you were in and then the embarrassment you went through with your wife.
    When I was a toddler, living in very small town in MI, my Dad parked the car across the street from the bank and left my sister and I in the car for “a few minutes”. The street we were parked on was slightly uphill from the bank. Being such a curious child I thought that I would pretend to drive and I somehow managed to get the shifter on the column out of Parking gear. Well, the car rolled backwards across the street and right into the bank’s front doors. We laugh about it now but I am sure it wasn’t very funny to my Dad at the time. Thank goodness for small towns where everybody knows and respects each other. My Dad was a postal carrier also. It was in the 60′s when this happened.

  • Scott Williams

    @cari Ogden- I wish I could have kept this story until he was a teenager! :-)
    @Jenn Cady and @rjmartorelli- You guys have something alsmost in common!
    @Robin Meadows- I’ll have to ask Anna, I’m sure you have a bunch of stories with the ManyMeadows!
    @Judy- Will do, I haven’t left my kids at church yet; however many times they may be the last to get picked up!

  • valerie

    I think I got you beat, I left cooper, about 6 months old in the car in the garage for about 20 minutes because I forgot him! I was sick to my stomach when I realized that I left him and have been beating myself up about it ever since. Needless to say I have great compassion for those who you hear leave their babies in the car and they die, especially when I hear other people say “how could someone do that?”. Thank God it was a cool day and Cooper was ok, but his mommy was not.

  • http://www.annameadows.com Anna Meadows

    Oh wow. That is funny.

  • http://cindybeall.com Cindy Beall

    Ummm. Leaving your kid in the car while you go in somewhere?

    No comment.

  • http://cyndiakadisneyqueen.blogspot.com/ Cyndi

    We have never accidentally left the kids anywhere, but there have been times when “intentionally” thought about doing it (lol)!

  • http://www.christopherhopper.com Christopher Hopper

    As a pastor and a parent, this put a big smile on my face this morning. THANK YOU!

    CH

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