Chicken Dinner and Teens 5/19/2014

Monday and the weekend slipped by again with lightning speed once more. My coffee mug is filled with Door County Highlander Grog and I am on my second cup as I head out the door.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

Last Saturday we were invited to my brother's home to fellowship and eat dinner. He grilled some chicken breasts and the table was filled with many other items that went well with the chicken. He had invited family and friends over to relax and feast.

The conversation during dinner turned to one of our nephews and the experience he had during the week at his high school. It seems that he took part in a drama where kids were removed from class by the "Grim Reaper" and they were placed to study and live in a motel for 24 hours. Their leaving symbolized the death of a teen to their classmates and families. They could not call anyone, text anyone and social media was banned. To the world they were dead. Their fake deaths were explained as car crashes, drug overdoses, and other ways a teen might make a bad choice and die. Their friends and family found out what it would be like to not have the teen around anymore.

Rene and I found this quite interesting and actually a worthwhile project. On the way home we discussed the project and wondered if the message hit home with the classmates. I think the school did a great job. But don't all of us know a teen or two? I think it is the responsibility of all of us to watch out for kids headed for a bad choice and at least say something. I think that choices should be openly discussed within the home.

Think about it. The teen you save might be your own.

Have a great day.
Marty