Tangled Thoughts

San Diego: Day One

Christina

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May 6, 2018

Saturday, mom and I left on a trip. We left earlier than one should every be up on a Saturday.

Destination? San Diego!

Why San Diego? Why not?

We didn’t really have any particular reason in mind other than we we wanted to see the sun…

We arrived last night, got our rental car, drove in circles, finally found our motel, then headed out to get dinner. Forgetting it was Cinco De Mayo, we decided that since we were so close to the Mexican boarder, Mexican food would be good. I googled a few restaurants, picked one with good reviews that was still open and off we went. Except that when we got off the main road -the small streets were flooded with people dressed in various costumes.

Sunday School Lesson: All Things Work Together for Good

Christina

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April 13, 2018

I fear I get more out of my Sunday school lessons than the kids do. Except it’s not really a fear –because I know they get something from it and one day I pray they will be able to draw on the teachings –not mine, but the teachings from the Bible.

I once heard that teaching makes you learn things in a different way –It is one thing to know something, and it is another thing to know something with the intent to teach. I find this to be true.

You see, we are working through the Promises of God. Many of them, not all. But many of them. In order for me to teach these kids these promises –I must first believe them. Know them. Understand them. Really get them. Because if these kids so much as smell doubt? They will attack like rabid dogs. Ok, well, maybe not that violently. But they will find that doubt and expose it. Because that’s what kids do –right?

Marc Madness

Christina

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March 23, 2018

Today Amanda and I are celebrating Marc Madness (not to be confused with March Madness, of course).

What exactly is Marc Madness?

Sunday School Lesson: Resurrection

Christina

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March 18, 2018

We are still working through the promises of God, and this week happens to be the promise that “Joy comes in the morning.” With Easter just around the corner, I found it fitting that the lesson was drawing from the Easter story. Instead of just drawing a few points from it, however -I decided to make it the center of my lesson.

Originally I was going to get some resurrection eggs and tell the story as it unfolded. However, since we have 45 minutes and my lesson (regardless of how long I prepare) usually taps out about 15 minutes in -and I am always looking for ways to draw things out -I decided to let the kids make their very own set of eggs.

Travel Love

Christina

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March 2, 2018

How travelers learn to love.

Your heart is scrappy:

There are bits of your heart all over the world: in places, in people; in waves and in sunsets. You understand the beauty of loving big, loving wide, and loving often.

Travel has shown you the different forms of love in the world.

Love doesn’t only come in the form of romantic love. You have fallen in love with monuments, and landscapes; oceans and starlit skies. You have fallen in love with words, and language, and tiny touches of fingertips.