emotional traffic

If you're not pissed off with the state of the world, then you're just not paying attention"

[kasey chambers]

I was reading over the talk outline for "Bringing God's High to the Schools" and one question raised is: why bring God to the high schools?
Under that question, there is a comment about the Columbine Massacre in 1999 - a result of what happens when God is taken away from schools.

Being young is something that we, as youth, should embrace with true joy and excitement. True - we all go through emotional stuff-ups, trials, assessment season and close-to-fatal fights with family and friends. But truly, teenagehood and adolescence is the time to be vibrant, energetic and full of God's unending HIGH.

Sadly, events like the attack in Middle School 1. in Beslan last week, or the Columbine Massacre in '99, or the September 11 attacks in '01 are enough to put any young person off from celebration.

For many of us, it's easy to push away the problem and pretend that it doesn't affect us or that we're useless in changing the way the world is.

But this is exactly that type of attitude the breeds today's terrorists, suicidal youth and abusive parents. Indifference, ignorance and the active decision to sit back and let the world do the work for us are all attitudes that taint the reputation of humanity.

There is no excuse to let a day go by when we don't show that we care enough to loveour neighbours . Considering the number of homeless, derilict, poverty-stricken and abused people out in the world, it amazes me that we, as humans, are still able to find an excuse to be completely apathetic. In an era where the "world becomes smaller" through technology, multimedia, niche markets, and instant communication, it is a mystery why we still are unable to communicate a solution to our species' unending conflict.

I wonder what it is that people are waiting for.

In response to the question "Why bring God to the high schools?" is simple. In a world where there is murder, conflict, pain, hurt, abuse, racisim, sexism, fear, anger, intolerance, impatience and sin... it is clear that we're in dire need of the peace that God offers us through Jesus.

He said it pretty clearly: "I came to bring you life to the full"...
Bring it on Jesus Christ.

The young people of this world need it desperately.