Teaching Passage

My babies are in the 8th grade. Okay they aren't my babies, but I've known most of them since 6th grade and they are growing up so quickly.

So tonight we all get together and they are all bursting with energy and there are new faces and it is awesome and I am so excited. And it as if a sugar bomb has exploded and infected everyone with hyper activity. Really.

Tonight I opened my bible and was going through the index. I kept thing and praying, Dear Lord please show me the passage where Peter or Paul go to teach and congregation is more concerned about their boyfriend and about that upcoming math test and did you see what so and so was wearing and this was all screamed really loudly. Lord show me that passage and what those great early teachers did. Instead the Holy Spirit reminded me that Peter and Paul were stoned, beaten, jailed and crucified. Yeah that Holy Spirit is all about perspective.

But this got me to thinking. One of the things I've heard recently about spreading the gospel is that we're not breaking chains busting people out of jail. We're just pointing out the fact that the jail door is wide open and they can come on out. Which somehow got me thinking about my wild ones. My crazy girls that I have loved since the sixth grade. That I have watched grow and that I get to continue to watch grow and I thought. Do they know the prison gate is open? And if I say that will they look at me much the same way as they did tonight when I felt like the crazy lady yelling at the front of the room.

And then I thought, Oh No. Are they here to talk about their math test and their boyfriend? Do they see me as in the way? And if so how do we get on the same page.

Enter the plan. It's so simple so God. So, the gate is open...hello.

Maybe I should ask them. Maybe we should draw it and look at it and see where they think they are and where they want to be. And this is in all things. With God. With their walk with God. And how we're supposed to help them. I mean I am LOVING this idea. Where are you and where do you want to go. And how do we remind you of that lovingly. Of okay you said that you have a goal a destination. A place you want to be. And now this time is intentional and we're going there.

It's exciting. It's good. It's got Holy Spirit and nothing I could thought of written all over it... :)