A few stories to clarify that all is not peaceful talking circles in my small group:
#1 In the midst of sharing God stories (cool things that they've seen God do), one of the girls, E, pipes up with, "I asked Jesus for a baby brother, and then, a week later, my mom was pregnant!" ...brief pause... "Or, maybe my mom heard me talking and just decided to do it."
Umm... moving on... Anyone else?
#2 M looked up at me in the middle of the video we were watching about Jesus healing the centurion's servant and asked, "this is just a pretend story for the DVD, right?"
"Well, the actors are just pretending right now, but it really did happen in real life."
Momentary pause while his eyes get huge. "That's so cool!"
Our videos have been starting out at an imaginary clubhouse and then moving into an (intentionally) ridiculously overacted reenactment of a Bible story. Obviously...the line between real and pretend is not quite as clear as it seemed to be.
#3 All of my kids know that they have permission to stand quietly, rather than sing words that they don't mean during worship time.
#4 Guess which group had a child puke and another child bruise his arm falling off of a sled during their Fun Fling?
Yep. That would be us.
And, lest I forget.
#5 JE, another one of the girls, was rather upset at me this week, because I knew the name of a teenage boy who "used to go to her school" (and also happens to hang out with my sister)... not that she has a crush on him or anything.
*eye roll*
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