harmony

Tonight was the best meeting I've ever had with a high school youth group. The book we're using to walk through God's story is incredibly powerful and we're all connecting with it. I feel like a lot of youth ministry is a guessing game: will the right activities and the right lesson find the right kids at the right time? Tonight answered that with a resounding "ABSOLUTELY!"

We talked about harmony. Last week was creation and this week was the beauty of the Adam and Eve story before the fall. God created humanity and it was supposed to work. Of course it gets messed up but tonight we got to dwell in the moment before everything falls apart. Harmony. Everything going right.

Maybe it helped that the kids that showed up were band kids. Maybe it was fitting to talk about all of this in the middle of marching band season. God did this. We read parts of this chapter and the last poem of it in sort of a choral reading kind of way and it was beautiful.

It's amazing how clear things can be. Anyway, here's the quote of the night and then I'm headed home. Jordan was drawing on the counter after we were done. He kept screwing up whatever he was trying to draw and he yelled in frustration. I asked him what he was trying to do and this is what he said:

I'm drawing an artistic representation of harmony--how everything's different but it works together anyway.

And there's the vision for the world. Right there's the vision for the church. There's the vision for the kind of life I want to share with those around me.