Never knew

VBS is great! I am wonderfully and thouroughly exauhsted but I am pumped about 2 more days!

I have always heard it said that these kids are watching us and basing there lives around the examples that we as adults lead. This has never hit home as hard as it did last night. Our pre-school class had a rough night. I have somehow became friends with these little angels. But as they melted down one by one... I was sitting with one crying child trying my best and with everything in my arsenal of bribes, to make her stop crying before her sister joined in. With my last bribe... she was done and melted in my arms and cried her little heart out. So as I am trying to soothe her, her sister simultaneously melts down. I cant calm them both, so another ghild in the class sits down and looks at me and watches and listens to me, and starts to do and say everything I am doing for the one child. ANd to my complete amazement... both girls stop crying! Who knew! Now, I know that this is a simple examplem, but these kids are watching!

Now to something else... know that I take my role of directing seriously, I want everything perfect, because this is the only experience with church that some of these kids have ever gotten ot will get. I dont want anything that I say or do to skew how these kids view not me, any of the teachers, Faith Free Will Baptist.... but God. Children are so impressionable. One little thing can send them in a direction so far away from the cross and I dont want to be responsible for that. I have had to learn to be athoritative. Night one... no one listened. Now these kids are listening and obeying!! Not that I am on a power trip... I just want them to listen and do what I say so that things go smoothly.

I am having a blast! I am exauhsted! But I am truly honored to get to do this.