Responsibility
I don’t want to grow up, I’m a toys r us kid,….
Many joke about the rapid move in teenagers wanting to grow up too fast, the girls start wearing make up too early, the guys start planning their future as the next nba super star too early, they date too early, they love to early, and at the end of every statemetn of too early, the statement “they are just not ready for that kind of responsibility” comes out.
With the massive change in my life over the past two years, with meeting and marrying my mate and love, buying a house with huge house payments every month, to raising two kids, our dogs, has been nothing more than growing up too fast. the responsibility is something that hits you in the face. mom and dad don’t bind you out of your car breaking down anymore, and monthly bills are trippled from my single living on my own days. Responsibility has trippled all at once.
Yet, the biggest responsibility that I feel right now, is to my girls. I was talking with my husband last night about how I feel so inadequate in the Bible. That I wasn’t taught all of the books and how they are orchestrated into one beautiful picture of God’s redeeming love. Yes I grew up in church, but I never did the character studies that our students are doing, and to my memory I have never gone through the doctrinal statements either.
Too many times student ministry is nothing more than filling out sheets, playing a couple games, and hanging out a couple weekends out of the year. That’s not ministry. Thats not carrying out our responsibility of teaching the Word of God.
This isn’t a bash on how I grew up, or how my church functioned, but its more an encouragement to be more than the norm. To take more responsibility. As parents, as youth ministers, as leaders don’t take your role lightly.
I think we are on the verge of raising a generation of Bible illiterate youth that when faced with their own responsibilites do nothing more than crack under pressure. Granted, we can not force our student’s to dig into God’s Word and become more passionate about the love that abides in them, but we can teach them how to study, how to pray, and most importantly how to be loved and accept God’s love and guidance throughout their lives.
theCREEK
this is a picture of my man on a wednesday night at theCREEK. things have been going wonderfully at church. we have been a little on the low side due to summer and visiting moms and dads, etc. Josh works so hard and has been such a tool in spreading the Gospel of Christ to the Cedar Creek area. Sometimes I get so tired of hearing plans, and shcedules and ideas, but its just my unwillingness to listen.
anyway, i thought i would post this wonderful picture taken by yours truly of my hubby. i love him and i love seeing God work through him at home and at church. Not all women can bragg and respect their husbands as much as I can. I’d hate to have to be in the shoes of those that are “one” with a prideful overpowering lack of a preacher. i see a lot of bossing and dictating and “willfully submitting” when they are doing nothing more than taking part and encouraging the sinful lives of their spouse.
yesterday was mine and josh’s 8 month anniversary. you may think its stupid that i track every single month and i’m sure to some it is, but to me its a celebration that God has given me my mate, my friend, and my “one” that I can love and respect and let lead.
I love you Joshua William King!
