Unfortunately our Saturday Winter Jam trip was not too pretty. Our crew showed up Saturday night in Greensboro to a sold out concert at the Coliseum an hour and a half before the show. Who would have "thunk it"! Unable to join this not so merry crew, I was with my mother in Florence undergoing a critical surgery. Our amazing chaps (for whom I am grateful for stepping up at the last minute in my absence) tried to make lemonade out of lemons by going to the movies. Bad turned to worse as the quality of movies available led to the youth journeying home two hours earlier then expected. The old He-Haw TV series would have put it this way, "Gloom, Despair, Agony on Me...WoooOhhhOhhhh!"
Praise God, I heard most of the youth handled the twists of events quite well. I sincerely hate things turned out like they did; though, it begs the questions...How should Christ-followers respond to disappointment? How should Christ-followers respond to inappropriate influences? Here are a few scriptures that can help us ponder our responses to these questions ---Ephesians 4:14-5:21; 1 Peter 4:7-11; James 1:13-2:3; 1 John 2:3-6.
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