"I've asked Jesus into my heart like six times."
"I haven't asked Him into my heart yet. I want to wait until I'm married."
"I asked Jesus to be my Savior because, when you do, there's a party in heaven."
You know those times in movies when there is all kinds of chatter in the background and the focus is on the one person left trying to process an enormous amount of information to the point of near freak-out? That was me today. Because those three quotes came to me directly from some of the kids today at vacation Bible school....all at once. And I was that person left wondering "Where do I even start with this one?" Especially when the next three comments immediately following went something like this:
"I believe in unicorns."
"I think it's fun to do cookies and flip my four wheeler and get hurt. It rocks."
"If I don't get a cookie in 15 seconds, I am going to flip this table and chew on my hand."
My immediate thought: "Uhhhhhhhh............is there a pause and rewind button to this conversation and life event...because I seriously don't even know how to interrupt the randomness with anything resembling a thought or comment they would even care to process."
As I sit here tonight reviewing my day at VBS, I have a lot to laugh about. The kids at my table are absolutely precious. The things they say, the words that come from their mouths...sometimes I feel like I can't get enough of them. Even the latchy-ness at times doesn't bug me (which normally it would). I told the two rambunctious boys at my table that they could skip telling me their verse if they could punch my hand on the table and actually make it hurt. They failed and quoted the verse perfectly later. Suckers. Well...my hand is a little sore tonight.
The highlight of my day today was watching another table leader pray with one of my girls to accept Jesus as her Savior. As if that wasn't fulfilling enough for me, the lady came over to me later and said, "Kasey, I've never been able to do that with anyone before. And you don't know how bad my life has been." To me, THAT is one of the main themes for me at VBS. We volunteer and we teach and we lead, but ultimately, it is a realization from ALL of us that need His grace in our lives and all of us have it offered to us, no matter how bad our lives have been. Trust me, it's a truth I'm still learning to accept in my own life. These kids likely don't know it, but they are impacting our own lives in ways that are incomparable. As scared as I was to confront my fear of leading groups of kids this week, I am finding myself increasingly blessed by their little lives and being able to be a part of it, small as it may be.
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