Totally Normal

Haha! I wish that I had gotten a picture of my small group today.

True to form, Valentines weekend was gorgeous shirt sleeves, bare feet, waiting for summer sort of weather in Tri-town, just to lull us into pretending that it isn’t really still February. After last week, when the entirety of 4th and 5th grade Sunday school was on hyper pills in anticipation of Super Bowl parties, this seemed like a good week for being outside.

I sent them on a “scavenger hunt” around the perimeter of the church building, and they came back with sticks and leaves and pieces of broken who-knows-what… and snow shovels and patio chairs.

We put everything back in its place and headed upstairs just long enough to get armloads of foam swords and plastic shields. And… proceeded to have a giant, breathless, laughing, falling down, stepping on pieces of tumble weed, battle.

We came back in time to talk for a few more minutes (about forgiveness, and kindness, and the kind of community that Jesus modeled for us), go over the memory verse, and head to singing, where a few of the girls wrung my brain for every ESL sign that I could remember.

An hour and twenty minutes a week isn’t long to try and create genuine, Christ-like, community, but, good grief, we’re going to keep giving it our best effort.