The point of this blog is to blog about what you see.
1. Do you see God working in your day-to-day life?
2. Do you share God in your day-to-day life?
3. Do you have anything fun and thought provoking to add?
I invite you to post, write about those things or other things. Whatever strikes your fancy.
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We are the youth, youth counselors and those associated with them at A&M UMC. God's doing some crazy things in our hearts and in our lives. How can we not share these stories, revelations, verses, songs, etc. with each other? This is the collision of our hearts coming together as we strive to know, love and share Jesus Christ with the world around us.
1. Yes!
ReplyDelete2. Sometimes
3. No
Hahaha-- I crack myself up. No but seriously I had a funny thing happen to me yesterday:
So I go to junior high schools and teach a curriculum a few times a week and have recently starting praying during the moment of silence that comes on over the intercom, after the pledge of allegiance (before, I just used that time to pass out papers or take roll). But on Tues I prayed that God give me the words to speak to allow understanding to take place.
Later, at lunch, I was thinking about the previous 4 classes and pondering over the question of why some classes went well and others didn't. 1st period was ok, 2nd period went great, 3rd and 4th period had gone horribly. Was it me? Was it the kids? Did it have anything to do with the proximity to PE or lunch?
Finally I recognize that the class that had seemed to grasp what I was saying the best was 2nd period, the one where I had prayed. And I start to think, "Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they saw me pray... maybe by seeing me stand there with my eyes shut, clearly praying, they had gained a certain level of respect, or reverence, for me, allowing them to pay better attention!"
I started thinking about ways to include prayer time in every class so that they could see me doing it, and would therefor behave as though they were in the presence of a holy man. Genius--how could it not make a difference? Then I caught myself.
What is wrong with me? I'm sitting here plotting how to get kids to see me pray, and it hadn't occurred to me that maybe it wasn't the visual of me praying that made a difference, maybe it was God answering my prayer. How pompous of me-- how frustrating that has to be to God!
So anyways, I snuck in prayers before the next 2 class periods, and found things to go surprisingly smoothly. Huh. How often have I said a prayer to God, with absolutely no expectation of him answering?
Michael