Humble Finish

Ryan is out of the hospital but I don't think he is out of the woods (or out of the diseases) quite yet. 

Of course, he is in Africa but here in Houston, Texas, (America's Africa) our reading camp is finished and we now prepare for VBS starting July 7. Short-lived as it was, some cool stuff happened in that week and a half. 

Some of the interns helped to run different classrooms during reading camp. I helped with the "prayer room." Discussion about the days topic preceded any prayers. During a discussion about humility, a child raised her hand and said that humility was like falling. 

I don't know how old that kid was or what her name was. She might have been Karen, a new girl nobody had seen before, or she could have been Jennifer who was always a really good kid. Both of those girls were about nine years old.

What about Jesus? I think that when He was twelve He was talking to some adults in the temple. He made his parents crazy while they chased this twelve-year-old Jesus through the place. This kid was born in a stable, laid in a manger and our God started his life on earth that way. Sounds like a pretty humble beginning for the God who "fell" to earth.

The nine-year-old girl was right on. Humility is like falling; falling back of order. Just ponder about what the nine-year-old girl said: "Humility is like falling"