Kids Playing

As I think about last weekend and the mini Seeds of Fire Camp that we did in Knoxville for young people and adult allies in East Tennessee and wonder what learning will come from this experience sometimes the little things are the ones that stick out in your mind. Watching kids play is always an incredible experience and makes you remember when you used to play outside or in the house hoping that your mom wouldn't yell at you to not break anything or to stop playing all together. Watching 13-18 year old young people play hide and go seek in a church on the surface seems kind of trite. Realizing that for these young people this is the first time they have played hide and go seek in years and the first time that they were not worried about repurcussions not from their mother but from bullets, knives, or fists. Watching them run around the church knowing that no matter if they won or lost they would be safe is something special in iteself. I often wonder if what we are doing makes any difference and people like for us to quantify why the work we do matters. I would love to just post a picture of the teens playing hide and go seek and the rapture on their faces as they run down the hall and the look of pure joy knowing that no matter what here in this space they are loved, cared for and free.