Rock Star Wanna Be

I love the craziness of a church filled with kids for VBS.  Or basically any other time you get a large group of kids together.  I tend to love the craziness because I admit, it allows me to be a bit crazier and sillier than the responsible adult me is supposed to be when I go to work and sit at my desk to shuffle papers all day.  This week it has allowed me to dress like a wanna- be 80's rockstar and encourage about 50 or so k-5th graders to sing awesome fun songs about Jesus.  It also makes me feel a little bit like Richard Simmons..."the whole jumping around for 4 minutes and encouraging the people in front of you bit".
And even though I love the craziness, there is only one thing that spurs me to do it and feel like it's "okay".  It is the fact of knowing it is done so that all those little smiling faces I see sitting in front of me have an opportunity to be someplace fun where they can learn about how much Jesus loves them.  That really is it.  My role of getting kids excited and singing is only one out of the many of people who teach through crafts, snacks, games, and stories.  Non-stop tangible lessons about Christ for 2 hours!  It's amazing.

So I will jump in my heels, tell them Jesus loves them, give them hugs and let them think I'm a rock star wanna be...all in the name of Jesus.  If only this was my real job...I could wear really big hair.