God Talks to Me

No joke, dude.
With KidMo I am so stressed. There is so much more pressure: to get things done, to say the right things, to create a schedule when some of your teachers are not responding to emails and others feel like they need to step out, which is what creates the scheduling issues in the first place. And often times it just feels like "WHAT IS GOING ON??!?!??!!!!??" Is this craziness ever going to let up? I get discouraged and overwhelmed, because I try to do it on my own.
And this is where God talks to me. I have been reminding myself that I am in this position because I was called to it. God wanted me to be this to do this and it will lead to a better future. But never had I felt like it was God telling it to me. I was reminding myself. I went to a conference type thing. Beth Moore. She does Bible study series and goes on tours delivering different messages. And really thousands of women are there. It's incredible. The first night was "eh" for me. Nothing had hit me yet. And same thing through the first half of Saturday. But after our break, God was speaking straight to me. The last three steps of her "makeover" (I could go into detail about her message, but I don't feel like it.)
Anyway, what got to me was "You are here for a reason and there is a better future, an eternity." And other things about the glory of God and so many other broad, religious topics. But the personal outlook was what I needed to hear. And then Pastor Bill's message on Sunday was right in line with that. "God is always working." Especially in those tough times when the light at the end of the tunnel seems so far away, He is doing something. He has a plan and I need to trust that. I need to believe it, and after this weekend, I do.
This weekend has been very uplifting for me. And even the things we cover in KidMo: Discover who Jesus is, Dig into the truth, God has a Direction and Design for our lives, and another one that I feel embarassed for forgetting! But that Direction and Design has fueled me also. It totally pumped me up for Sunday morning. Dulce (the other teacher and new MC love her to death) and I prayed before we taught cause I was just feeling the Spirit and, I would like our teachers to do that if we can. It can be hard, but it is certainly well worth the effort.

There are so many things that I would like to incorporate into KidMo. Like I said before, prayer with our teachers and hopefully with our kids. More crafts and interactive things. I would sometime like to go off the videos, even though they are wonderful and take some stress out of planning. But I really want to get the kids active. Every time we take communion (last Sunday of the month for us) I really want to do a reenactment of the Last Supper with the kids. They would sooooo dig it. We could reenact so many things: Noah, Moses, the Fiery Furnace, Jesus's baptism and his parables and miracles. So. I hope I can get that together.
We are also going to keep a record of what the kids bring. They earn Bible Bucks which they can then spend in our Bible Bucks Store by bringing their Bible, a friend, a tithe or offering, their Map Book, the Bible Bucks Email, reciting the memory verse. And at the end of each month we can award the kids who brought their Bible every week and who got the most total. Same with at the end of the year (school year). It could be really fun and I hope the kids get into it.

Okay. I've blabbed enough about all that.
If you want me to elaborate on anything in my blog, or previous blogs or an entirely different subject, leave me a comment cause I need inspiration sometimes!