- Number of classes: 12
- Number of new observers: 6+?
- Number of times of morning prayer: 5
- Number of evening worship times: 2
- Number of surprising people brought to worship times: 3
- Number of crabby days: 1 (no more than that, right...? ;)
- Number of times I've asked the question "How was your summer vacation?": roughly one hundred! (it feels like it, at least)
- Number of chocolate squares eaten: a secret (is that really countable?!)- Number of times we've seen God do miracles: more than I can count...(even more than the chocolate bars' statistic...)
Special highlights:
One lady in my music class...we're talking about "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and talking about how it ends kinda sadly...since she is studying the Bible, I just commented randomly that expecting to be filled with human love always ends sadly...cuz it doesn't fill us. Only God's love does that. Then we ended class with a quick listening of "Trading My Sorrows," and at the end of the listening, with an embarassed laugh that reminded me of a young school girl, the lady said, "God's love is so...big..." I was struck with how intimate that sounded; and she realized too that "big" was not a holy or far-off word for God...just big. Hence the embarassed giggle, I think. And I realized that God's really been working on this lady...and it sounds like she knows, finally, that she is loved...
My usual connections with junior highers or high schoolers involve seeing them walk into English class at 7pm, still not having eaten dinner and coming right from basketball or music or one of the other gazillion sports or activities or cram school lessons they have...pretty much, they're dead tired. But this morning I got to visit the high school where one of my former students is a teacher...and I got to meet all of her students! Basically, I spent a couple of hours walking around and laughing and talking to random kids all over. It was great to see them in their elements...so much praying needs to happen for this generation...
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