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When I was a kid I loved to write (go figure).

When I was a kid, I was horrible at spelling (again, go figure).

I hated the thought of other people seeing when I made a stnank. It terrified me.

Whenever I spelled something wrong, I'd black it out.

Seriously. I would black it out.

I'd rub my pencil over the misspelled word as many times as I could. As hard as I could. Over and over again, until all you could see was a ugly, nasty black spot on the page.

When I got into elementary school, my teachers told me that it would be fine just to draw a line through the misspelled word and write the correct word next to it. But I didn't want to cross it out. I wanted to black it out!

The other day in Philosophy class (because I go to school now), I was taking notes. I'm the only person on the planet that will ever read these notes, and I noticed I still black out my mistakes stnanks! I don't even want to see my stnanks!

I started thinking about how spelling words wrong isn't the only stnank I like to black out. I try to black out all my stnanks. All my sin. But I can't. I just end up with ugly, nasty black spots all over.

And I'm not the only one who tries to hide my stnanks sin. Read Genesis 3 to learn about Adam and Eve's stnank, and how they tried to black it out.

This is Daniel
I saw the point coming a mile away you fat jerk!
the word stnank makes me want to cause you physical harm, but then again what doesnt?
next time put in something about a tommy gun near the end.
which reminds me, new pics in album #2/7/8 check em out and comment

Hey Pat! Really good blog. Usually your points are really simple things that I already know, but I liked this one because I never really thought about it like that. When we try to get rid of our sin on our own, we're not ONLY unsuccessful, but we end up with huge black marks all over the place that are even worse than the original stnank.

And thanks for linking to my blog. :)