So last year Morgan’s (my 8 yr old daughter) guidance counselor Mr. Christoff asked me to do an assembly on friendship….and as any dad would say (or at least I hope) given the opportunity to spend the day at your child’s school, having your child as your assistant…of course I said yes, not knowing what I was getting into.  I thought this would be easy, then he told me…6 assemblies, 100 kids at a time, 40 minutes each assembly, and you need to keep their attention.  This had me nervous, and I am not like that…I wanted to do God justice first and foremost, but then at the second thought it was my daughters school and she has to walk in there everyday, and if I suck at this….CRAP!!!  Well needless to say, the assemblies went well, according to the principal and I had a blast doing it, although I woke up 5 times in the middle of the night wondering how to keep the attention of k-2nd grade children and influence them about friendship!  (it was sooooooooooooooooo neat to see how Morgan worked with me and how she actually ran the powerpoint without having to tell her to go to the next slide…I mean I have even had to do that with adult youth volunteers! WE HAD A BLAST)

But that is not what got me…..this is what hit me close to the heart!

I was introduced to this boy….he seemed really quiet but then he opened up and talked to me a bit about soccer.  You see this kid never attended any of the assemblies, because they were in the cafeteria!  When I was introduced to him, this is what was said…Tug, I want you to meet this boy (forget his name) he is from Haiti, and he has a lunch date today…someone eats with him everyday, but not in the cafeteria….he will not step foot in there, because he was in a cafeteria in Haiti when the earthquake hit! WOW!!!!  I immediately thought adoption, immediately thought what can I do for this or any other kid…but then realized having three children is like having a blender with the lid off….I realized a 4th would definately not be in the mix.  But it did not stop there, I could not stop thinking about this….. HE WOULD NOT STEP FOOT INTO SOMETHING THAT HAS SHAKEN HIM UP SOOOOOO BADLY….so here are the thoughts that God gave me on this, and I would love for you to respond with comments or thoughts.

1.  When dealing with fear of anything what is your cafeteria, what is it that you need to overcome by stepping or jumping to a place that you are so afraid of going!  Is God calling you to something that requires you to step out!

2.  Could this Cafeteria in your life represent your struggles or a sin that you have been dealing with for so long, that you need to your “eating spot”  the place that is costing you so much trouble and so much addiction, and you need to run from that?

I have not been able to get this out of my mind….so I thought I would share it!!

By the way I have taken a huge step in life…I let go of something that I was holding onto for the longest time and God has moved…details in next blog!