Our family spends a week together each summer. For the past two summers, we’ve gone to N. Myrtle Beach. 7 days, 4 Jones sisters, 3 husbands, 2 parents, aunt & uncle, 1 cousin, 6 grandchildren and 1 niece. It’s a little loud and for an only child, my son, Robert, it can be a little annoying. So, the conversation went a little like this.
Grant – (13 yrs) Don’t 2 year olds take naps?
Robert – Hopefully so!
Gage (2 years) – Hope a lee NOT!
I still laugh when I think of that. Robert is convinced it’s not funny, not adorable, not anything but mightily annoying but we laugh about it even today.
I’ve started reading Kenda Creasy Dean’s new book with a group of friends and I keep praying those words as I read. Hope a lee NOT! However, I’m afraid that she is right.
“What if the blase religiosity of most American teenagers is not the result of poor communication but the result of excellent communication of a watered-down gospel so devoid of God’s self-giving love in Jesus Christ, so immune to the sending love of the Holy Spirit that it might not be Christianity at all?” (Almost Christian, Kenda Creasy Dean, p. 12)
Hope a lee NOT!
Faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit. “The church’s job is to till the soil, prepare the heart, ready the mind, still the soul, and stay awake so we notice where God is one the move, and follow.” (Almost Christian, Kenda Creasy Dean, p. 15) I’m thinking we’ve maybe tilled the soil and readied the mind but also put folks to sleep, regulated the heart and couldn’t find our God goggles or know when to move. Hope a lee not.
