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Article for Parents #6

The Insanity of Risk Management – Check out this article for more of what we feel versus what is really happening in our kids lives…

According to the Centers for Disease Control, what are the top five things that cause harm to young people?

1. Car Accidents

2. Homicide

3. Child Abuse

4. Suicide

5. Drowning

According to the Mayo Clinic, what are the top five things that parents say they’re worried about when it comes to their kids?

1. Kidnapping

2. School Snipers

3. Terrorists

4. Dangerous Strangers

5. Drugs

2011-12 Weekly Activities

For 7^th-12^th graders

Sundays

9:30-10:30 . Sunday School

4:30-5:30 . Sr High Choir and Mid High UMY

5:30-6:30 . Snack Supper, Fellowship and Worship

6:30-7:30 . Mid High Choir and Sr High UMY

Wednesdays

4:00-5:00 . Open Building

5:00-5:30 . Dinner in the Wright Place

5:30-6:30 . Praise Band Practice

6:30-7:45 . Mid-High Point and Senior High Bible Study

Fridays, 2nd of each month:

7:30-10:00 . Hangtime

Tension. Hope. Contradiction. Light. Shadow.

Whew.  I tell you what.  Life is sometimes more than I can handle.

The ride I am on is definitely calling me to more.  More trust.  More hope.  More letting go.
Allowing God’s light into my shadow life.

John 3:19-21 – The Message
“This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.”

Parker Palmer talks about “living the contradictions”…”Here we refuse to flee from tension but allow that tension to occupy the center of our lives.  And why would anyone walk this difficult path?  Because by doing so we may receive one of the great gifts of the spiritual life—the transformation of contradiction into paradox…a larger truth than we had even dreamed.”

Where we live in the great dramas of life – the place where God and the world interact.  Living a life with God only points out the contradictions…the contrast of the truth of the spirit and the lies of our lives.  The Spirit wholeness and the brokenness of our lives.

It seems to me that most people don’t sit well living in the contradiction.  We either have such a HARD time with the contradiction that we walk away from God’s love and light…or we try so hard to live as far away from the world and to stay “pure”.

So I am attempting to live in the contradiction.  The light and the darkness.  The risk and the hope.  There are many things in my life that I would have NEVER expected even 5 years ago.

I drove to Dairy Queen on Scenic Highway on Tuesday at 6:10 a.m. this past week.  The sky was changing and I had to see it over the water.  The contrast of the dark sky with the beauty of the coral/yellow light piercing through…  I am so thankful for that time that I had with God.

Article for Parents #5

NO BRAKES:  Risk and the adolescent brain

Article for Parents #4

Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults

Article for Parents #3

Raising a moral teenager: Two conflicting myths

Article for Parents #3

Boys Miss Out on Sex Education Talks With Parents

Article for Parents #2

New Research explores the long term effect of spiritual activity among children and teens

Articles for Parents

Articles you may find useful:

Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today (Newsweek)