J-E-L-L-O and such

I still think one of the greatest parts of my work is getting to see students do crazy stuff, so last night was a good night. Seeing our middle school students covered in jello was highly enjoyable, and the crazy thing is I think some of them actually enjoyed it to. The object of the game was to put a puzzle together that was buried in jello, and both teams did pretty well. The bummer part was trying to get the parking lot clean afterwords. Oh well, good times.

Last night we continued our serious called Identity by examining "who am I?" I think far too often we're more concerned with who we want to be SEEN as (and I include adults here) then who God really made us to be. We spend so much time trying to be something we think would be cool for us that we often just abandon the good things that we have already been given. A couple of students helped with a great illustration of this. One girl tried to hammer in a big nail with a 15lbs hammer (which lowered her hand about a foot and a half when I handed it to her like something out of TV) and a guy tried to tie one of our poor girls' hair in a pony tail. Guess how well both turned out. The nail never did get fully in and the pony tail was well, not great and caused a good deal of pain. When we reversed things and had them do what they were actually good at the guy quickly and accurately got the nail into place and the gal quickly and wonderful did the hair. The point? Be who you are, who God made you to be. Don't waste abilities because you think you won't make gobs of money doing something or it's not cool. Do what God made you to do and do it well.