life...hope...

well my mom had her semi emergency hip surgery

today, it went well they were done by 10:30 in the morning.

she'll be at Anderson Orthopedic Clinic till the end of the week.

then she'll go to my Grandmothers where an in home physical

therapist will come work with her, she can't have it at home

b/c my dad will be leaving for a missions trip to South America soon,

and someone has to be at home to assist.

tonight was different, I was having issues with the computer

for songscreen in south hall...dual spanned monitors...in windows 98

need I say more. Youth went better, the band was a different group

so they weren't as tight as they should have been but it was ok.

Nikki talked to the high schoolers and middle schoolers combined.

there were some good points...but can rem them right now, we'll

chalk that up to me being tired. :-)

then I went to El Chaps, Addie Collins had called

me to ask me if I was going and I was like of course.

so I got there and walked in and there was like NO

ONE there, well there were 2 tables of people, but NO

WEAGers....what happened? did I miss a memo?

I mean I know the brazil team wasn't there but still...

so Addie showed up and we decided to get coffee.

we went down to The Gutenberg Cafe by 17th st farmers

market...they make White Mocha's to die for. Addie

just got her license! Yey! and we got lost downtown..typical for me.

good times.

I had interesting text conversation with one

of the kids tonight. even though I'm not a youth

leader I find myself in the position of being and

example and being asked these questions I'm not

sure I'm totally equipped to handle.

basically they feel like everyone hates them,

I assured them this was not the case, but that sometimes thier

actions are inirrupting and sometimes peoples reactions can come off this way.

this is what I told them, let me know if you think this is right:

"we're supposed to love and accept everyone how they are and hopefully they change to become more Christlike, it's a journey we're all at different places on."

"and no ones perfect, but if we can talk it out and forgive each other, everybody wold be better off."

they're answer: I should accept who I am and then...that's

where I'm lost. how does that affect others?

me: "Yes you should accept yourself, but then do bible study and such

to change yourself to become more christlike."

"its not your responsibility to affect others.

that's between then and God, as we grow hopefully we will all grow

towards becoming more Christlike, thats what the Christian walk is

about... Not always easy"

when I say "its not your responsibility to affect others", in reading it now

that may be wrong, but take it in context of a youth to a leader.

and I may need to clarify,

thats all for now, I need some sleep.