Ever lost a lantern?
We kid our pastor, Geroge, about sacrificing lanterns to the lake gods. (BTW, he's named his boat Visitation so he can easily say he was "out on Visitation last night".) Over the past few years he's lost 3 lanterns in the lake. The most interesting one occured one night when he was alone in his boat and my son and I anchored with our backs to him about 30 yards away. We had gotten there and were busy setting up the lights, poles, radio, etc., when we heard call out, "Hey, Eddie, I've got a little fire over here." We turned around and saw George leaning back in his seat with his lantern shooing flames about 8 feet into the air. He had a fire extinguisher right by his seat but didn't think to pull it out. Instead he grabbed a long handled dip net and used the handle end to pick up the lantern and swing it over the water. His intent was to dip it in the lake to extinguish the flames, but as the tank end of it hit the water it slid right off the pole and into the water. We were kind of holding our breath that nothing bad would happen, and then we almost fell out of our boat laughing as he leaned over the side and tried to grab the lantern as it sank. Thankfully, his dignity and the lantern were the only things lost that night. We all caught a lot of fish.
Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men...Matt 4:19