Advent: Hurry up and Wait
I seem to have this continuous feeling that I'm forgetting something. Perhaps it's only because I have far too much on my mind, but I hope it's not truly justified. That being said, I'm really trying to take the wonderful moments that come my way at their full value. Tonight my youth group had our Advent/Christmas party. As usual, these wonderful kids can always brighten a bad day (not that it was one) and make me laugh. We did a few relays to get some energy out and some cooperation and teamwork in. We spent some time doing our Christmas ABCs where each of the 6 teams had to come up with a word or phrase for each letter of the alphabet and duplicates didn't count! We had some that were a bit of a stretch (I've never heard any story about a Christmas zebra...) but the creativity was great. We ended with a gift exchange. All these gifts were brought by the youth, then traded and the wrapping ripped to shreds. It was fun to play an...