July 15, 2009
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Affirmation and Acceptance...
Last night I was visiting for a bit in one of the girls rooms and at one point the younger elementary girls pulled me into one of the side rooms wanting to play. One of the girls wanted to show me some dance moves she learned from VBS at church and she laughed as she performed. Now, I'm about to go to Myanmar for missions (leaving July 25) and I've had to learn a worship dance to go to a song called "If My People Pray," so I told the girls that I know some dance moves too. They all got excited and sat beside the wall to watch me perform. I did the worship dance for them (no music) and they smiled and laughed throughout it. Then they got up and wanted to perform more for me. At one point they even had me go outside the room for a little bit so they could practice before performing for me. Happy, cute girls. I clapped and smiled and encouraged as they did their little dances. They were each embarrassed at times, but laughed a lot. I noticed one girl though was a little more insecure, despite my applause. I had to leave after their little performance, but I felt led to go back to the room for a moment and simply say, "Tonight was fun." As I said that, I noticed a smile form on the insecure girl's face. Funny how far simple words of affirmation and acceptance can go.
I recently watched a stellar sermon by Larry Stockstill (see link below) about fathers where he talked a lot about this. I really encourage you guys to watch it... it gets good at the 13:30 mark (the first 13:30 are mainly intros/stories/jokes, you can skip forward by clicking the button next to the play button on the bottom left and selecting the second mini video screen)... http://video.oru.edu/chapel/20090326_Rev%20Larry%20Stockstill%20-%20Spring%20Revival%2010am.php.
Matthew 3:17 - And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."
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