Ho Hum, Oh Me, Oh My!

This week has been very stressful to say the least. We have been having several issues in our community with drugs and alcohol and despite all of the endless lectures and talks in has infiltrated into our youth group. This has been very trying on my patience as well as my faith. I am so upset that I could spit fire one minute and be on my knees crying out to God the next. I have realized how much my emotions affect my physical well-being. Since all of this information has come out it has had a snowball affect on how many kids have come forward and began to confess all of their sins while also blowing the whistle on their fellow friends' sin. I have not felt like doing much of anything much less going to church and loving on them, which is what I should want to do. Why is it teenagers make us want to ring their neck most of the time? I love these kids as my own and am so hurt and angry. This has only led to physical pain for me and my fellow ministry leaders. I woke up with chest pain last night and couldn't get back to sleep and several others have found themselves with back pain and several other physical ailments. It is so important for our well-being that we find a healthy outlet to release pent up stress! So I propose that our Senior pastor and his wife along with myself and my husband by a pinata. A Party, you ask? Not exactly. We need to buy one and nix the candy and the hanging of the pinata and the blindfolding and take a baseball bat to it! We can let out all of our frustration on the poor paper animal! This would save us from our stress and also from jail! (Instead we could destroy the pinata and not the children). I have to say my children have not yet reached teen status, although I think my 10 year old might not ever make it due to her recent attitude change! LOL! But I will say that those with teenagers I pray for you all every night, I know that you need it! Teenagers are so difficult to explain things to since they already know everything! I definately will say that this whole experience has been humbling in the fact that I have called my sister and mother to apologize for any attitude I gave or stress and disappointment that I may have caused during my own teenage years! My dad always use to say when I was young "Next time I am having puppies" I always wondered what he meant! (Actually I think I thought he was probably crazy as I remember that I was a teenager when he said that) Now I understand completely. Dogs are a much easier route to go down-At least I can kennel them when they don't do as I asked!!!! LOL!