J'espere en toi

What do Teenage Girls Need?

by Carol Kuniholm

What do teenage girls need? Ask ten girls and you’ll get ten different answers. But a ninth grade girl recently said something that set me thinking. She was emoting about how frustrated she was that so many of her friends had stopped playing our youth group’s active games. “They just sit on the side. They feel like everyone’s watching them. They feel like the boys don’t want them to play, and they feel like they’re in the way.”

So what do they need? “They need for the female leaders to get in the game and encourage them to come play.”

Life is more complicated than that. So is youth ministry. But it’s a good place to start. Teenage girls need permission—permission to play, permission to speak, permission to set their own boundaries, feel their own feelings, stumble along the way. And if their youth leaders don’t give them that permission, too often, no one will.

(Source: studentministry.org)

May 27 '12 · # Youth Ministry, Youth, Teenagers, Girls, Need, Freedom,

If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that anxiety has a weird way of making the most insane ideas seem reasonable. It first starts off with the tiniest little what if. Then you wonder if that what if has some bit of truth to it, and you start debating it in your head. The next thing you know this tiny little what if turns into a maybe. So you think about it more, and the more you think about it, the bigger it grows. Before you know it, this thought has now become a huge monster chasing you, and you’re trapped in a corner. You can feel its hot breath in your face as it prepares to swallow you whole.

— Travis Mamone

(Source: relevantmagazine.com)

May 26 '12 · 1 note · # Quote, Anxiety, Mental Illness, Disorder,

It really does not matter how old or young a person is. If God calls someone to do something, and they have the confidence to go forward, nothing can stop them.

— Joyce Meyer

May 25 '12 · 2 notes · # Quote, Success, Age,

Better than Quidditch? I think yes.

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May 24 '12 · 100 notes · # Soccer, Football, Bubble, Boblefotball,

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If you’ve ever been to a Christian bookstore or even the far corner of Barnes and Noble, you’ve probably wandered into the Christian fiction section that’s littered with novels owning sentimental titles like Abby’s Journey, complete with a downtrodden-looking Amish girl on the cover. Or you might have escaped gazing at such saccharine work and come across fictional books about the End Times, or maybe about a detective who tracks down serial killers using Scripture and his “quiet time.”  

Christian fiction might be, more than any other genre, the most cringe-worthy of all Christian arts. Sure, as attempting-to-be-culturally-progressive-and-relevant Christ followers, we can wince at films like Fireproof and the music on our local family-and-faith-friendly radio station. But at least there are so-called crossover films, such as Blue Like Jazz, and albums like Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons, which place importance on reality and spirituality rather than religious sensationalism.

But Christian fiction?

  Contemporary Christian fiction was marred by two phenomena: the Left Behind series and Amish fiction.

— RELEVANT Magazine

(Source: relevantmagazine.com)

May 23 '12 · # Quote, Christian, Fiction, Books, Literature, Quality,

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May 22 '12 · 3,183 notes · via herewecollide · # Quote, Hope, Brighter, Days,

explodingdog:

it should be better

May 21 '12 · 1,308 notes · via explodingdog · # Crazy Monster, Hope,

Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

— Jeremiah 32:27, ESV

May 20 '12 · 1 note · # Quote, Bible, God,

At the start of the new century, after 50 years of rapidly growing global prosperity, 2.8 billion people worldwide survived on less than $2 a day.

— Maggie Black (via latefor-thesky)

May 19 '12 · 4 notes · via latefor-thesky · # Quote, Prosperity, Poverty,

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May 17 '12 · 1,771 notes · via p3rfection-is-overrated · # Quote, Smile, Stranger, Tomorrow,

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I taught her well...

Me: I'm in a relationship with my pet rock
Not official
But like, it's pretty serious
Deborah: Well congrats. The relationship must really 'rock.' But I hope your relationship isn't too 'rocky.'

May 14 '12 · # Texts, Texting, Sister, Rock, Relationship, Pet, Original, Pun,

Mother’s Day card 2012

May 13 '12 · # Card, Mom, Mother, Mother's Day, Thank you, Original,