What we do is...first we watch one of the Truth Search DVD's. There are different 6 lessons and then we have workbooks that go in depth about each lessons. Reba Bowman is the speaker and she does an amazing job and she is a great speaker! Lesson one is about friendships. Do you have "Jello" friends or "Iron" friends? I told the girls tonight that our friends can make or break us! We must make sure our friends sharpen us...
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ~Proverbs 27:17
Tonight one of the girls asked if it was okay to be friends with someone who went to a "biker church" not exactually sure what that is <lol> but i think what she basically meant was is it okay to be friends with someone who doesn't go to the same kind of church...we ran out of time so not everyone got to give their oppinion. My sister also asked something along the same lines...her question was if you have a friend who does not go to church and you have a friend who does go to church but you know it is the wrong kind of church, which should you be better friends with?...my thoughts were: good question. it is very hard when you are a true Christian and you go to public school. It is like the world surrounding you and you are alone smack dab in the middle trying to fight it off while they are trying to push you to be just like them. I know this becasuse I went to public school.
I started out in very small Christian sc
hool and i felt like I fit right in. My 2nd grade year my mom homeschooled me and my brother Josh. the next 2 years i went back to Landmark. My 4th grade year they raised the prices so high we couldn't afford it anymore :/ So my parents
had to decide what to do...Homeschool or Public school?? they decided public school so off to Liberty Middle School i went...not knowing a soul at that place i had no friends!! At that school unlike normal schools they started kids in middle school at 5th grade! I had been VERY sheltered and I learned just how sheltered i had been during my first week at public school. I had to persay..."grow up" very fast there to know what the other kids were talking about. I have never been a really talkitive person especially back then but it was hard for me to make friends. It still is today but I am alot more friendlier now than i was as a 10 year old little girl. Don't get me wrong i LOVE to talk and i really do have lots to say but when i meet new people words just don't come to my mind which leaves me speechless! But moving on...Somehow I made it through middle school in one piece and {FiNaLlY} made it to high school!!! this summer it will be 2 years since i graduated and as i look back I truly wish I had done some things different. Not necessarily my grades (although if i could go back i would have tried for all As) but some choices i made. Like I told the girls tonight I didnt have many "friends", i look back and I realize I pretty much had no friends. Yes i had people I sat with at lunch and laughed my head off about the stupidest stuff! but i had no true friends. I actually only still talk to ONE girl that I was good friends with in school and i hardly ever even talk to her. I had one other friend who i considered to be my BFF and even up til my 1st year of college i still considered her to be but she was not the best influence on me and my my my how the Lord showed me that during my freshman year of college! Some choices i wish i had made differently are how i chose my "friends" and how I stood for Chirst. I did not get saved until the end of my junior year but I thought i was saved the whole time so i claimed to be a christian...
I wish so badly I would have spoken up when others degraded him or other christians. I wish I had made it ALL about him then like I am trying to do now. I wish I had had a backbone back then. I wish I would have tried harder to witness and bring up Jesus to others in school. I wish I had known then what I know now! I looked like a Christian on the outside; i wore skirts (still do today) everyday and I read my Bible at school but I did not always act or talk like a Christian should. I guess that is why this GLAM class is so important to me...I don't want the girls to look back and wish they had done things differently. there are SO many pressures so many different things pulling at ALL the young people in the world today! Everyone wants to fit in and 99% of those people will do whatever/ ANYTHING it takes to be popular and to have "friends."
In January some of my church went to a Youth Conference in Georgia (which was amazing!!!) and tonight my lil sister reminded us of a testimony that a young girl gave...she had recently went through a very scary surgery and she was thanking God for being there for her...She also said how NONE of her "friends" from school were there for the surgery or came to see her as she recuporated! Next she pointed to her youth group sitting around her and said "these were the ones there for me..."those were her TRUE FRIENDS.
A friend is someone who will be there not just someone to gossip to at school or on the playground. A real friend will lift you up and will make you sharper for the Lord. In the end it won't matter who had to most friends anyways...If I just have 5 true friends in my life I'll consider myself a very blessed girl. I am so thankful to say I do have some Iron friends, not many but i do have a few! Lastly i am SOO thankful I have a friend that sticketh closer than a brother! His name is Jesus! Even if i had 0 friends here on earth I would still have HIM. I am glad Jesus is always by my side and he is my best friend <3
I know all that is a little scattered but I just spoke from my heart ;) I will talk to yall tomorrow!
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