We are about to go on the winter retreat with our middle schoolers. I’m nervous!
To be honest I’m used to helping run retreats and occasionally spending time with the kids. Tasks are easier than relationships. True story.
God is working on me so much lately and how it really is that love is all that matters.
It says in 1 cor 13 you can have a whole bunch of stuff you can have every checklist checked but If you don’t have love... it’s all just a bunch of crap and scribbles. Or something like that.
I don’t know how it happens but honestly i always get the best kids in the youth ministry I’m in. I don’t know how it happens 🤷🏼♀️ and I’m so excited to get to know these girls more.
I started making lists of stuff i need and made the initial trip to Target... making them bags with stuff in them. I’m really excited!!!
Please be praying for us! It’s gonna be a great time! And I’m certain God will work in and through all of us!
1 Cor 13 (ESV)
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV
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