I have a love/hate relationship with Wednesdays.
This is fact.
It is easily the busiest day of my week and I mostly love it.
Actually, I mostly love Refinery.
And by that, I mean I love the people at Refinery.
My small group this year is craxy (<- not a typo, btw).
It's just Michelle and I which means the sarcasm is flowing like fresh, golden honey and we burst out laughing at random moments. We have three of our girls from last year, 5 freshmen, an exchange student and a girl who transfered from the other group. I love them all, but putting them all into one room with somewhat stupid questions to discuss is completely insane. CHAOS! Half of our discussion is just getting everybody quiet.
But as I stated before, I love it all. It is probably one of my favorite hours out of the week.
What I don't like about it is this: I feel so inadequate. But in a way, that's good. At a seminar I went to this past spring, the speaker, Chap Clark, stated that we can't be everything for the youth we work with, but we can point them in the direction of someone who can be. (Insert Sunday School answer here) But what do I do when someone isn't sure they even want help finding God anymore, that they don't even want to be here (in a couple senses of the word). That came up tonight.
This girl showed up at Refinery last fall, pretty much out of the blue. Since then, she has grown so freaking much and not just spiritually. She has a really crappy background and even her present isn't all that charming. She went on Deputation and had the mountaintop experience and now she's falling hard. I don't know what to do for her other than pray and be there for her. She's a great girl/gal/young woman and I don't want her to lose sight of herself and value in the influence of others and the world.
Please pray for her, if you would. May God sustain her spirit and place strength and trust in the people around her.
Thank you. I didn't mean to bog this blog down with this issue, but it's weighing on my heart right now.
-KL
1 comment:
don't ever apologize for prayer requests!!! sheesh.
I love how hard you care for those kids. remember that it's in our inadequacy, in our failings, that God has room to work.
one more thing...Don't you ALSO love Wednesdays because THAT'S WHEN GLEE IS ON!?!
wasn't kristen chenoweth aMAZing??
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