PE Class
I have been talking with my high school kids at the end of each class this week about Good Friday.Questions from "Why do they call it good, if such bad things happened?" to "I thought they broke His legs?". You can imagine there has been good conversation and insight into this day. I brought them through step by step, from the flogging, beating, and finally the cross.
I have never really taken the time to study this on my own but after doing so I feel so ashamed of the pride I carry around. Each day I talked about the different sufferings of Jesus my heart began to weep and understand a little bit more about what God did for me personally. I think following Jesus is coming to terms with the fact that in some huge part I am responsible for his sufferings.
After my last high school class discussing the agony of the crucification the class went inside to change but one girl kind of dragged. I asked her what she was thinking and at first she couldn't put her hand on it. After a bit, she said in deep reflection a response that echoed what I have been feeling this whole week.
"It just touched my heart."
That is similar to what happened in my class of 4th and 5th graders. When we talked about each step of the painful death that Jesus suffered and died for each one of us it was overwhelming. There were plenty of times when we were reading from the Bible that we had to stop andgather ourselves together as tears rolled from our eyes. Thank you for sharing what happened in Okinawa. God bless your ministry there.
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