high school bible study

so i'm back into a bit of youth ministry...leading a bible study on tuesday nights. the church i attend doesn't have a youth group and so after much prayer i decided to start a bible study for high school students. three teenagers came and it was fantastic. i just love them and i'm excited to see how god works in their lives and through this study we are doing of james. i'm looking forward to getting to know them better and being a part of their lives. i pray for god's blessing over this and for his wisdom.
it was a hilarious evening as two of the students are homeschooled and they talk about courting. i asked what the difference was between courting and dating. the non-homeschooled student said, "nothing. that's just the homeschool word for dating." it was so funny. i laughed so hard and they all did as well, thank goodness.
speaking of dating, at jbu's chapel today, the speakers talked about relationships and spoke honestly about some of the issues college students at a christian university deal with...the pressures and the realities. i rather enjoyed their stories and words of wisdom. one guy told a story about a date he went on in highschool to a putt putt place. at the fourth hole, he swung his club high and pretended to hit the ball hard. his date thought he really hit it and jumped out of the way only to trip over the little rope barrier causing her to fall and roll into the pond. no joke! i was laughing so hard. he then took her home but a half mile past her house he ran out of gas, so he went back to ask for her dad's help. at least they laughed about it at his 20 year reunion.
it was an almost pee my pants in chapel day.
the same guy told us this story about his wife (a different woman) and how she likes to pull practical jokes on him. one night she woke him up and asked him to seek out a suspicious noise-an idling car. when he returned she had stuffed the bed with pillows unbeknownst to him and hid on the floor beside his side of the bed. when he went to get into bed she grabbed his legs and pulled him down to the ground and all he could think that is was the man from the idling car. seriously SO funny.
yep, pee your pants kind of day.
it's good to laugh, snort and smile.