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Prevent Alcohol and Risk related Trauma in Youth – a program that is hands on to get high school youth to see the result of poor choices!  Tomorrow I will go with a group of youth as they progress through the day.  Each step, from a mock crash to trying to eat lunch with a “handicap”, is designed to impress on them the need to stay away from drunkenness and making poor choices.

I’m not sure all that will entail – there was some training but the actual day is often full of surprises.  So, surprise, I’m off to bed soon in order to be up fresh and ready in the morning.  Should be a good experience – we’ll see how it goes!!

There comes some days when things that are happening just happen.  You can’t title or categorize or sequentialize the happenings. 

I would like to!

Then things would be in my control.  I am in charge.

But I’m not! 

As a Christian I’m still learning what it means to surrender.  I am crucified with Christ.  What a strange statement.  And yet liberating.  Because I go first to God.

Maybe we need to start a “Surrender First” movement.  Would that work?

A week or so ago, April 27, 2011, David Wilkerson died. The cause was a car crash in Texas.

For those of you who haven’t run across this name let me give you some background. In the 1970’s a book was in vogue amongst church goers. Called the Cross and the Switchblade, it talked about gangs and drug addicts, and the changeover that can happen when Christ affects members lives. Wilkerson wrote this book about Nicki Cruz. He later formed a rehab center/network called TEEN CHALLENGE. We have one just down the road in a town called Allen, Saskatchewan (OK, it’s over two hours away, but in Saskatchewan that’s not that far!). A loss to family and friends, but he certainly birthed in the lives of many others a Christianity that survives the worst to bring the best!

Five sessions today were there to listen.  And to talk.  But talk was secondary.  At least on my part.

The first was to consider future direction and structure from an advisor.  The second was to listen to make sure I was hearing what another was saying.  The third was to serve as mentor by hearing the heart.  The fourth was to hear what others were saying.  The final was the only “teaching” situation where I was expected to “sit and listen.”

I sometimes wonder if we would learn more if we were to see every part of our day as a place to listen more than to speak!