Protecting!

Hey guys. So i took up a challenge yesterday, and I don't know how its going to go, but I have the very distinct feeling I might give up! This challenge was to write a 50000 word story in a month. Now my friend did it last month, which was the official month that you were supposed to do it in, but I am just doing it to see if I can. We will see what happens.

Last night, after church, I watched the new movie, Race to Witch Mountain. I know when I was younger, I used to watch that and it's sequels all the time!! (It's not about witches!) I love the movie! Also am working at trying to come up with discussion questions for Transformers 2 with my middle school kids. We have a group of middle schoolers that are very wild, and not at all interested in God. We are coming up with uncoventional ways to carry on conversations with them about God, and it has worked some, but we promised them a movie. We decided we would turn it into a movie with a purpose. But Transformers 2 is not the easiest movie with which to come up with life discussion questions about. Any suggestions?

Today Sarah and i went and saw the movie BLIND SIDE. It was a great movie, and for those of you that haven't seen it, you need to. And for those of you that have, well I will say this much, Leigh Anne is so much like me in quite a few ways. Fiercly loyal, protective, and SHE CARRIES!!! (That's Sarah's wording!) But that's not why I am talking about this movie. When Leigh Anne tells Michael, this team is your family, protect your family, I thought to myself, she's right. We need to be like the front tackle!!! I know this probably is going to be over done, but think about it. We need to be there to help our family in Christ out just like football players help each other out. Sometimes we need to take hits so that someone else in our family is protected. I know this last year there have been times that I have stepped back and needed some extra protection, and God has always made sure that someone stepped up into that position! So many times, our family in Christ can be hit by us instead of being protected by us. I watched a family that I respect and care for A LOT, being hit repeatedly by other members of the body of Christ. They were trying to take them out! They wanted them to fail. Now can anyone tell me, where in Scripture that it calls us to attack our fellow believers?? I didn't think so... But this needs to be our calling!! Step up and hit the enemy before it can hit our family!

That is all I have to say, and I know in someways, I am on a soapbox about this, but I just saw how damaging it was to that family, and their kids, and just to the surronding members of our family!