Bonjour les enfants!
Welcome to the last post conerning Acquire the Fire. Please don't cry...save your tears...really.
So I felt theere was some good. It didn't come from the speakers, or the abortion skit, or the emotionally manipulative altar calls...it was the youth group. They are really awesome human beings that I got to hang out with for an entire weekend! We talked about different faiths and spirtuality, high school, parents, college, sexual assault, rape, and my personal way of Christianity. I learned a lot from them. As teens they're so open to these experiences because a lot of it is the first time they're feeling/seeing it. It's so cool to see them learning to deconstruct arguments and things they're hearing claiming to be facts. Already they described to me how it doesn't feel right to them to practice things like denying rights to LGBTQ people.
One of the girls I spoke with said she "I just don't get that." We were speaking about gay marriage as a hot topic and she talked about how she couldn't even believe we vote on gay marriage...it should just be legal she said! How cool is that? They talked about supporting each other and being there through the difficult wonder years. These teens accept people as they are. I think they really get what Jesus was about.
So, when it feels like I'm not making a difference or that I'm so drained, I just remember the youth group. And suddenly I get a little burst of inspiration.
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