I just read an article on Crosswalk about the twin brothers, Alex and Brett Harris, from the family of Gregg and Joshua Harris.   They have started this Rebelution ....  I think?

So I went to their website blog and read a great post by another author, a young woman  Christina Dickson, and here is the link to it:

http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2008/08/change-the-world-today/

Check this out...

My thought this morning, even before I read this article, was on the Olympics, and how hard the people work to win the prize (how young they begin..), and what that effort could translate into if it were given over to really important things rather than just people's bodies and egos and for entertainment.  Then all the hours all the other people watch them building themselves up.  I wondered where is Jesus in  all that  work and waiting and watching? 

I could be stepping on some toes here ...

Funny this is ... that my heart has been drawn to young people since my oldest boys were teens and I knew their friends.  I knew these kids needed love and a higher purpose and I wished I could DO something.  I tried hard to relate to them and to be kind, not condescending, or apathetic.  I still feel that way though I don't feel the calling that I did then.  I still feel that 'kids are people too" and that we forget to treat them that way alot.  Nevertheless, as parents, we are not always equipped with the tools, knowledge, experience and circumstances etc., to challenge and support our children to do the hard things ..

Well, I dunno.  I, for one, wish I had been challenged and supported to do more difficult things for others when I was young.  Often we suffer from concentrating on ourselves so much, whether  in becoming successful or becoming depressed.