me.... on a wednesday

this past wednesday i was mentally exhausted from all the emotions

surrounding virginia's funeral

i was tired of sitting in a car all day

& listening to my thoughts knock around inside my head

but i knew that evening there was only one place i wanted to be

our church has an AMAZING program for the middle schoolers

LUG

it stands for living under grace

the purpose is to teach our kids about the amazing love

our heavenly father has for them

make sure they have nailed down in their hearts

at such a pivotal age

that we have a holy god

who is full of grace

& is wildly crazy about each of them

somewhere between 800 and 1000 kids meet up every wednesday night

eight hundred to one thousand

seriously

hilarious skits

amazing teaching

worship music that would blow your mind

& sweet sweet small group time

during group time the highschoolers teach the middle schoolers

pouring back into the next generation what they've been taught

beautiful!

i am privileged to be the adult facilitator for the group savannah leads

most weeks i sit and listen to them

i usually get all choked up

i'm so proud of these girls

wednesday night they spontaneously began encouraging each other

every one of them

picked out a character quality about another that meant something to them

over a dozen 13 year old girls loving on each other

priceless

when we come back together

all 800-1000 of us

we worship

talk about worship

these kids love the lord unashamedly & with a pure devotion

part of me felt guilty that night

sitting with my daughter

while my friend had buried hers just hours before

but during worship that night

while all 800 to 1000 of us worshiped

i knew viriginia

was

doing

  the

very

same

thing.....