Vacation Bible School

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Okay, so my wife roped me into assisting with a Vacation Bible School that I wasn't tremendously enthusiastic about doing.  I just wasn't enthusiastic about the time commitment with it being a few hours each evening for a full week (which also turns out to be a very busy work week for me).  The funny part is that after this past weekend (final set up and our first sessions just last night) my WIFE admitted that she wasn't expecting this much extra effort to be put in when it was pitched to her.  Set up was very time consuming and our specific role in the process involves a LOT of extra prop purchasing and design that we weren't expecting.  Just last night at 11:30 p.m., I found myself leaving WalMart with a $60 receipt for the items that we MISSED the first time around that we just discovered upon a closer look that we will need later this week.

My wife and I are partners in the bible story sessions where we try to re-create some of the bible stories that match the common theme for the particular day.  We have a pre-written script to follow, and my role last night was to pretend that the lights in our room weren't working so I had to pretend to try to track down the problem while coming back with different lighting solutions (first little battery operated flicker candles, then mini flashlights, etc.)  So MOST of my time was spent outside of the room away from the kids, just listening from the hallway for my cues to enter with my lights.

So my wife did most of the work, but after one of the groups finished their turn in our room, a girl with Down Syndrome of about 10 years old came over to me (not my wife who shared with them for 20 minutes, but me who shared three lines with them and "fixed" the lights)- grabbed me around the waist and said "Thank you."

She reminded me of what the time effort and money is REALLY for.  This is going to become my next entry in my No Coincidences with God blog.