A Parental Challenge

How are teens expected to grow in the understanding and application of their faith if parents aren’t highly involved? I don’t place blame at the feet of parent exclusively. As a youth worker, I have more than failed at teaching and empowering parents to effectively reach their own teens. Parents can’t be expected to automatically know what to do and in many cases, it’s just awkward and uncomfortable to sit down with a teen and say “So, tell me about your faith!”

I just completed a poll with 223 teens participating. Here’s a quick breakdown of who took the poll.  Just over 80% of those who took it attended church at least twice a month. I filtered out those 168 teens and am using those stats below.

33% were male and 66% were female

The questions I want to look at today are “How often do your parents have conversations with you about faith?” and “How often would you want your parents to talk with you about faith issues?”

As the above graphs show, about half of parents talk to their teens once a month or more and half talk to them less than once a month to never. Teens want parents to talk to them about their faith. The second graph shows that nearly 70% of students want their parents to talk to them about it at least once a month. 40% want to have conversations weekly. The most interesting thing I found was that less than 5% of teens want their parents to talk to them less than they already do. More than 95% want their parents to talk to them at least as much if not more than they already do. About 50% of teens want their parents to talk to them more than they do.

What teens don’t want is another lesson. Is it possible to converse about faith on a Christ follower to Christ follower level? Is it possible to incorporate it into everyday conversations without it turning awkward? I believe so. Here are five tips for you as you continue to journey of leading and coaching your teen in his/her relationship with Christ.

• Talk you the youth director and find out what topics they’re covering and throughout the week, make an effort to include that topic on your conversations.
• Take a look at the struggles your teen faces personally and if you also has issues with it, share with them how you dealt with it when it was an issue for you.
• Ask them to be a greater part of a small group/house church/ family devotion time with you.
• Ask them how you can pray for them.
• Have conversations with your spouse in front of them regarding faith and how it affects your life.

So, as a parent, how far are you willing to go to bridge the gap that exists between you and your teen?

I choose sin

I choose sin

I came to a highly uncomfortable realization this week. This morning, in front of a room full of high school students it came to the forefront. I said that I choose sin. I make an intentional choice to sin. Whether it’s a little white lie, laziness, cutting corners, my thoughts or hurtful sarcasm, I choose it and there’s no excuse for it. It was one of the few times they were silent. I think I caught them off guard a little. But I think it needed to be said…at least for me.

This past week, I had students take a poll. By the way, if you’re a student, I would ask you to take the poll yourself to help expand the base of teen responses. The teens that took it were about 75% churched students. That’s important because when they were asked about what things they would never tell their parents…they were extremely honest and I was completely floored by their responses. Students listed sex, drugs, porn, drinking, drunk driving, cutting, eating disorders, forced sex (rape), self hate and plenty of other stuff.

Although some of that is out of their control or it’s become a mental issue, most of it is chosen each time it’s done. They choose sin. They choose to drink, many times, knowing they will regret it, the same goes for sex, drugs and porn. It’s a chosen action. There are usually many steps along the way when they could have chosen to make the right decision but didn’t want too. Maybe that’s coming across a little harsh but even in my own life, I choose the decisions I make.

Where is the boldness to say yes to the right things and no to the wrong? Is it possible to say, even for a week, “I will not gossip”? Is it possible? Why do the same things continually trip us up? Could it be that we actually want to gossip or lie or cheat or drink?

What would it look like, to take to day and say that because of the confidence and boldness I have in Christ, I will not gossip. I will not lie or cheat. I will stand up for those being put down. I will make time for prayer and reading my Bible. Can we demand it of ourselves?

Is this just a crazy thought or have we made it overly complicated? I know we’re sinners. I know it’s our human nature, but I don’t think that gives us license for complete, or near complete, disregard for what we say and do on a daily basis.

if I were running for president

So I have no desire to run for office and wouldn’t be old enough til 2016 anyway. I started to think about what I would run on and based almost completely on the majority in recent polls, this is what it would look like.

Health Care

• Congress will get the same plan as regular Americans… and vice versa. (I know it’s redundant but it sounds better if we would get their plan than if they step down to ours!)
• Tort reform to caps medical malpractice.
• Government health aid would require proof of citizenship
• Allow for interstate plans.
• Add incentive for healthy living and preventative care.

Budget Issues

• Audit the Federal Reserve and cap the level of profit it makes off of the American people.
• Fully balanced budget in the first two years. Period
• In years 3 and 4, federal budget must be on the positive by 1% (30B) and 2% (60B) respectively.
• Lower taxes for all citizens while providing fewer government services. Starting by cutting from the programs which are most in debt year after year, allowing them to restructure to be more efficient.
• Repeal Obama tax hikes
• Move Social Security age to 66 for 50 year olds, 68 for 45 year olds, 70 for 40 year olds, 72 for 35year olds and 75 for 30 year olds.

Social Issues

• For marriage between one man and one woman. (civil unions is a different issue)
• Immigration reform starts with a council of one republican and one democrat from CA, TX, NY, IL and FL as they have nearly 60% of all illegal immigrants.
• Add more incentive to charitable giving to counter decrease in federal obligations.

Energy

• While developing alternative sources for energy, lift bans on off-shore drilling, gulf drilling, Alaskan drilling and great plains drilling.
• Build nuclear power plants
• Repeal any cap and trade legislation

Government

• Any presidential advisor must be vetted on record and confirmed by panel of 5 Republicans and 5 Democrats
• Any change in laws regarding congressional replacements or voting districts must not be implemented for 1 voting cycle
• All bills will be read for the record and posted for one week before the vote.
• Any pet projects or special interest projects must include congressman requesting such funds.
• Increase presidential election financing to 100M and establish it as law.

Others

• Allow for competition between educational institutions.
• Keep union ballots secret.

I know I have more but this was what I ran across first so I thought it would be a good start. Any thoughts?

What’s the problem?

The guys of my house church met last week and, as always, we waited til the end to bring out the big thinking questions. Usually, I come from the side of focusing so much on personal devotion that we miss living out our faith so I intentionally move a little left of center into the social aspects of our faith. Another guy has grown up in an environment that fosters personal devotion as the core foundation of faith. I don’t question our devotion being the core – I just tend to think that there are so many people that stop at personal devotion that they miss all of the amazing aspects of being proactive in living it out. As we were discussing/challenging/provoking/bantering with another, something began to come to the forefront of our conversation. How much faith do we put in the systems we’re using? Is it too much? not enough? Does it even matter?

The more we talked, the more it seemed that we, as people (maybe Americans), continue to find the perfect system to “fix” our faith. There’s been youth groups, seeker-sensitive churches, small groups, Purpose Driven groups, the Bible in 90 days groups,  house churches, cell groups, mission groups, parties, memorization techniques… the list could go on. As I think about it… is seems like the church is looking for the next greatest diet plan. They tried the Adkin’s, South Beach, Blood Type, Body for Life, Tony Little, Jack LaLaine’s Juicer, Deal-a-Meal, Sweating to the Oldies, TaeBo, Power 90 and P90x. They all work for a short while when the participant has energy and excitement and can see tangible differences. But, as we all know, it dies out and then we’re stuck with our same old habits and desires.

Aren’t there some parallels between these two? The ones who move from group to group aren’t typically the ones that are in shape. If I was to be blunt and rather forward, I would say that the ones that move around don’t have the discipline to stick it out or the personal discipline in their own lives regardless of the plan their in. As we discussed around the table at Wings and Ribs, I blurted out without thinking (not uncommon for me) that the reason our group was stagnant is because our own relationships with Christ and our families were stagnant. We were all banking on this group fixing everything and being the Adkin’s diet we needed to get back into shape.

Instead, these groups should be where our personal and family lives overflowed. Making it a place that was constantly growing and forming in our lives. I’m beginning to think that the reason these groups don’t work (regardless of what they’re called in your church) is because it’s the core focus of our faith. The personal, daily discipline we need to be in constant relationship with Christ isn’t there. It’s much more casual. It’s more of a twice a week endeavor. When it comes down to why these groups don’t work… you are the problem, I am the problem. It’s not the framework that we’re working with in – it’s that we’re not working within the framework. Instead, we want the framework to work for us. Instead of coming to our group with something that Christ taught us or someone we were able to be Christ too and love on, we come to the group ready for Christ to teach us something and set a date for show Christ’s love to someone.

Once we figure out these groups don’t work, we’ll create the next greatest thing, or we’ll identify that we’re the true problem and begin to address how to truly be Christ to those around us on a daily level and discipline ourselves to get in the Word and spend time with Him outside of Sunday morning and once a week during our house church.

Identity Crisis

Luke 10:27, “He answered: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” the good samaritan – several people see him and walk by… in fact those who should be his neighbor don’t do anything. Instead, a Jew walks by, sees him and cares for him. He established who his neighbor was.
If I were to summarize last week, I would say we are called to establish our neighbor, build our neighborhood and live in a proactive way… loving God and loving others.

If last week was about realizing our “mistaken identity”, this week is about our “identity crisis”.

First, let’s review last week.
1 Thess. 1:3 “We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

1 Cor 13:13 “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
my own version. And now these three remain: faith that produces work, hope in Christ that inspires endurance and love that prompts labor. But the greatest of these is love that prompts labor.

This calls for us to step up. There is something tangible to our relationship with Christ. Something happens to us. Christ is revealed to others through us.

Proactive living

• gossip vs. speak truth
• less angry vs. patient
• less bitter vs. forgiving
• less promiscuous vs. sexually pure.

This week I’m looking at it from the perspective of identity crisis because it seems that once people realize that we seem to find our identity in what we’re not, there becomes this confusion as to what our identity should be and what it should look like. If the goal of being a Christian is to become more Christ-like, I thought it would be helpful to list some of the many characteristics of Christ. The list here comes from a sermon heard at Grace Gathering in 2008.

• compassionate
• humble
• firm
• loving
• prayerful
• submissive
• truthful
• bold
• approachable
• perceiving
• gentle
• giving
• faithful
• empathetic
• sincere
• merciful
• Spirit led
• discerning
• caring
• thankful
• simple
• self-denying
• content
• uncompromising
• servant oriented
• gracious

Is there a difference between being a Christian, being Christ-like and being a Christ follower? Although many of you would probably say that there isn’t a difference, digging a little deeper has revealed a few interesting thoughts.  For many, being a Christian deals with the “things” that are part of faith, being Christ-like refers to what you’re being and your Christ-like attributes, and being a Christ follower deals with what you’re doing in your faith.  Aside from Acts 2:42-47, what else does the Bible specifically say about how to treat one another and does that help us better define what it means to be a Christian?

Acts 2:42-47 -The Fellowship of the Believers
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Dozens of books have been written about “one-anothering” but I wanted to get a fresh look at it so I went to www.biblegateway.com and did a search for “one another”. Here’s a list of how, biblically, we’re called to treat one another. Much of the list comes from a book called Authentic Relationships: Discover the Lost Art of “One Anothering”

Things we’re called to do

• John 15:12 – Love one another
• Romans 5:13 – Don’t pass judgment on one another
• Romans 12:5 – Be members of one another
• Romans 12:10 – Honor one another
• Romans 12:16 – Live in harmony with one another
• Romans 14:19 – Build up one another
• Romans 15:5 – Be like-minded toward one another
• Romans 15:7 – Accept one another
• 1 Corinthians 12:25 – Care for one another
• Galatians 5:13 – Serve one another in love
• Galatians 5:26 – Don’t provoke or envy one another
• Galatians 6:2 – Bear one another’s burdens
• Ephesians 4:32 – Be kind to one another
• Colossians 3:13 – Bear with each other and forgive one another
• 1 Thessalonians 3:12 – Abound in love toward one another
• 1 Thessalonians 4:18 – Comfort one another
• Titus 3:3 – Don’t hate one another
• Hebrews 3:13 – Encourage one another
• Hebrews 10:24 – Stir up one another to love and good deeds
• James 4:11 – Don’t slander one another
• James 5:9 – Don’t bear grudges against one another
• James 5:16 – Confess your sins to one another
• 1 Peter 4:9 – Offer hospitality to one another
• 1 Peter 5:14 – Greet one another
• 1 John 1:7 – Fellowship with one another
• 1 John 3:11 – Love one another
• Ephesians 5:21- submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Interestingly, the NT gives encouragement over rebuking on a 7 to 1 ratio. Now for the rebuking.

Things to avoid

• Do not be proud (Romans 12:16)
• Do not be conceited (Romans 12:16)
• Let no debt remain outstanding (Romans 13:8)
• Stop passing judgement (Romans 14:13)
• no divisions among you (1 Corinthians 1:10)
• don’t give up meeting together (Hebrews 10:25)
• do not slander (James 4:11)

The Knowledge Piece – Here’s my disclaimer… I have no intent to say that knowledge is not important or worthless. With so many churches focused on providing knowledge and knowledge based resources, I intentionally chose to go to the other side of the spectrum. Here’s a few verses I’ve used in my own journey over the past few months. Again, I want to make sure you hear me say that I am not against knowledge. I do believe that love is underrepresented in the conversation.

1 Cor. 8:1 – Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Cor. 13:2 – If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Cor. 13:8 – Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

We are called to establish our neighbor, build our neighborhood and live in a proactive way… loving God and loving others.

Mistaken Identity

Over the course of the past year or so. I’ve been struggling through this thought of our identity. Do we as Christians suffer with a mistaken identity and are we going through an identity crisis? This week, I want to try to walk you through what I’ve been learning regarding the thought of many Christians living with a mistaken identity.

I’m sure you’ve seen someone who’s words didn’t match what was seen. One of the easiest ways to illustrate this would be to dive into the realm of music videos. I don’t think there’s a better way to get this point across. I can’t remember ever seeing a music video that had much of anything to do with the song. Usually, it’s a completely different story line. What would it look like if the words actually matched what you saw. (Show video)

If I were to describe myself to you by all the things I wasn’t or things I didn’t do, you would probably still be confused on who I am. Too often, Christians describe themselves by who they are not. If you were to ask the random man on the streets what a Christian is, you would probably hear that they go to church and don’t do a bunch of bad stuff. Although those may be true, they don’t answer the question of what a Christian is… for the most part, they answer what a Christian isn’t.

So what IS a Christian? What is the ultimate goal of being a Christ-follower? There are many who believe that the goal of being a Christian is to get to go to Heaven. I don’t believe that’s the goal. It seems rather selfish for such a selfless religion. I believe that the goal of Christianity is to continually become more Christ-like. Heaven, of course, is a benefit to that lifestyle but not the end goal.

In many places love is talked about as a necessity of faith. Luke 10:27 says “He answered: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” Even that can be tough to understand though. What does it truly mean to love?

In a book called The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers, He expands a little on the passage we just read, Luke 10:27. Establish yourself as the neighbor. “It’s less about determining who your neighbor is and more about establishing yourself as a neighbor by your show of mercy to others.

What does it mean to be a Christ follower? I’ve been studying the letters of Paul for the past few months and I’ve been challenged with that question continually. The letters of Paul were written to small pockets of Christians between about 45 and 75 AD.

Most of the letters written, start out in the first paragraph by saying that he will continually pray for them and what they are doing but he doesn’t give many specifics. There are two letters that stand out which also happen to be the first two written – Galatians and 1 Thessalonians. In the beginning of Galatians, Paul says this. “I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all.”

The thing I love most about Paul is that he sees these groups as his children in many ways. I’ve learned some teaching principles from him for my own kids. In Colossians, he rebukes them for doing sinful things but doesn’t leave it at that. He turns right around and shares what they should be doing instead. Colossians 3:5-9 “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices…” He kinda lets them have it a bit but then turns around and adds this in Colossians 3:12-14 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

The problem the Galatians had was that they kept trying to live in both worlds. They were wanting to follow Christ but couldn’t seem to let go of who they were before Christ and attempted to combine the two. Paul was telling them basically to choose. What’s it going to be… new you or old you? What does that new creation in Christ look like? is there a way to see it? to see change? (Fruits of the spirit, one anothering) If we are filled with Christ, are there things that people should be able to see in us? A little later in Galatians, We get a little more info on what that looks like.  Galatians 5:22-25 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.”

The second letter Paul wrote was the first letter to the Thessalonians. In verse 1:3, Paul says this, “We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” At the end of 1 Corinthians, he says this, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
What would it look like to combine those two? How would that play out? And now these three remain: faith that produces work, hope in Christ that inspires endurance and love that prompts labor. But the greatest of these is love that prompts labor.

What strikes me most in this passage is just how proactive we’re called to be. Many of the things we’re called to do are highly proactive. It seems to me that many of us are living reactive Christian lives. Isn’t the Great Commission to “Go”? Then in all reality… what are we waiting for? We are called to establish our neighbor, build our neighborhood and live in a proactive way… loving God and loving others.

When we think about Christ, we usually come up with some great proactive descriptions for him. Reflecting back to us, we are usually reactive. Why is there such a discrepancy in this?

Proactive vs. reactive. Here’s the link to my basic thoughts on this. It’s easier than repeating it all here!

If our end goal is to be more Christ-like, why do we struggle to know what that means while we know so much about what not to do? We are called to be do-ers and be-ers… not sitters and thinkers.

We are called to establish our neighbor, build our neighborhood and live in a proactive way… loving God and loving others.

Speaking on Identity

I just finished up a two week series at a church and thought it went pretty well. Last week it was titled “Mistaken Identity” and this week’s was “Identity Crisis” Basically, the first half was dealing with the way many churches deal with Christianity. Usually, it’s approached from the side of things Christians aren’t supposed to do instead of what Christians are actually called to do and be. The goal was to establish that Christianity isn’t about trying not to do bad things nearly as much as it is about being Christ-like. I’m going to post my notes in the next few days to get some feedback.

new thoughts

I have a habit of thinking a lot and not writing about it. The last time that happened it led to a new ministry… which took 6 months to unpack and sort out from the mess in my head. So, I’m going to start getting it out there again so I can understand it.  As it may turn out, I probably won’t make much sense unless you’ve been a part of the conversations I’ve been having in real life with real people. People like Tim Hallman, Bill Cmeyla, Tim Smith and a handful of middle and high school students.

Here’s today’s list…

• Emergent vs. friend of Emergent
• penal substitutionary atonement
• governmental morality mandates
• civil unions
• the nature of the New Testament
• Scot McKnight (I’m reading through The Blue Parakeet)
• having an orthodox faith
• the problem with detractors creating the perception of who you are.

As you can see, I haven’t really been thinking about much, just a few light conversations over a cup of joe. Well, as I leave this as is for today, feel free to give me your thoughts about any of the above bullets.

Parallel worlds – infants and youth pt. 3

Here we go… part 3.

A few weeks ago, I was watching Supernanny. Of course, I watch it because I learn how to deal with my high-energy daughter Makenna. It’s actually been helpful on many occasions. Anyway, there was this family in England that gave their 4 year old a bottle and ground the regular food to a pulp and still fed it to their two and a half year olds… I was shocked. The parents said that the kids just couldn’t eat food unless it was all blended. That they couldn’t handle it.

Yesterday, I thought to myself, I wonder if Mattie can hold her own bottle. I hadn’t tried it before but why not? At first, she didn’t want to take it because I wasn’t holding it but then if I held her hands their she did.  If I moved my hands, she would hold it for a while but then she would get destracted or move her hands and then she would cry because she was frustrated. Well this morning, my wife put her in the beanbag, stuck the bottle in her mouth and Mattie grabbed it and finished if off by herself.  I started to wonder how long ago we could have done that… and why did I think she couldn’t do it.

Like I always do, I started to think how it related to youth. I don’t know why I do that but I can’t help it. Do adults treat teens like infants and, in essence, hold the bottle for them?  Do adults still mash up the food and feed them? What would happen if teens “held their own bottle” or took the fork and chewed their own food? What does that even look like? Is it more that adults are afraid that teens will screw it up or do adults just know what to do next?

I think teens can and will step up and do much more than adults think they can but it can be a little unnerving to let them go.

Why Youth?

Of all the questions I get, I hear this one most often. Usually it’s accompanied by, if your trying to move missionally or in a decentralized hybrid kind of way, why separate out the youth? It’s a fair question so I want to begin to unpack why I believe what I do.

First, I don’t think it’s the right question. I would instead ask why any groups are formed. Are they formed around proximity, culture, passions, life experience, missional focus, common relationships, time requirements, attitude toward faith… you name it and I think a group of youth can be in any of those categories just as some groups are formed that end up having only widows or young families.

Second, I often hear adults say they want to reach out to the people they work with, which is great, but by exclusively putting youth in with adults, are we not telling them that they are free to gather as long as they don’t do it in the ways I listed above?

Lastly, (for now) there isn’t another segment of society that spends so much time together. They start with school, practices, games, events, church, youth group, small groups, study sessions… not to mention texts, AIM, Facebook, Myspace and actual phone calls. What an huge opportunity to live out a Christlike life. Day in and day out they have opportunities to make choices that affect other teens, in most situations, the same teens. Why not empower them where they are? Why not ask them to get a few of their friends together to explore this whole faith thing? They already have a huge passion and zeal for life waiting to be stomped into the ground! What if they could feel that passion, as God intended it, and harness it for the good of the Kingdom. Their generation has already broken itself into the perfect little bite-sized groups of students from about 4-8. (Chap Clark has written a great book about this called Hurt).

I hear some people screaming OUTRAGE! as they read this. I mean, how is a teen supposed to grow if he isn’t surrounded by adults?  I would respond by asking how adults can grow without seniors… and how can seniors grow at all?

I believe that it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children how to live. But for the most part, I don’t see much of a difference in spiritual depth between the average church going 7th grader and the average church going 40 year old. I believe, as well as several other pastors, that this generation could surpass their parents on a spiritual level.  I want to empower youth to own their faith and move from a passive faith to an active, living faith.

Our local high school has about 2400 students. If you add up the local youth groups, about 600-800 are involved in a local church. How are the other 1600-1800 students getting the whole faith thing? I would guess that they wouldn’t need the full 6 degrees of separation to have contact with everyone in that school. So why not empower them to do it? Give them responsibility. Allow them out from under our agendas (school, sports, church and home) and live out their faith.

This seems to be behind door number three for many students. If they only knew it was there. unfortunately, many don’t ever get the chance to see it. Why and who is to blame? Just a few thoughts tonight… I finally got my Adderall refill and needed to get these out now that I could make sense. I’m sure more will follow tomorrow.

For the Kids