First off, I had a hard time considering what to call this post. I guess what I was looking for was of course Street Preaching but that generally has a bad rep and I figured people might not be interested. See what happened was at lunch at school today but once again I wasn't really in the cafeteria. Central is big and I was on the "Freshman Patio" eating lunch despite the fact that I'm a Sophomore.
For all intents and purposes it was Cafeteria Preaching. Oddly enough it came on the day of "See You at the Pole" rallies which our school of 2,500 has a dismal attendance of about 40 kids. However this kid wasn't even talking about God or any religion he simply came to our table and asked why we all looked down. This is a pretty legit question because we were all really tired, highschool does that to you. Then he goes "man this is a great day! it feels good out here today! this is a great day to be alive and happy! you're at a great school, you have money and clothes and food man you could be dead! I've been shot at I've been to ACL (Alternative Learning Center) Man its good to be alive its a great day!"
Some kids left the table and some laughed. It didn't matter to him he sat down and kept talking to those of us who stayed. While he used a lot of yelling and perhaps some language he had a really good message that when I thought about it we really could've and should've given some more thought. I mean we are really lucky to be where we are and to have the things we have. And while we like to say that a lot at church its a real wake up call when some random kid gets on to you for looking so down when you're so blessed. Preaching about religion or not it had religious implications to me. Life lesson for the day.
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