Logan's Lowdown

This week my son Logan wrote an article on his MySpace page that certainly challenged me. At times you will recognize that he is a 13 year old kid, fresh from a tremendous church camp experience. At other times I think you will feel that God is speaking to all of us through him. I felt I should share it with you.

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Yesterday I got back from Camp Adrian. It really was amazing. We listened to preachers, sang, and goofed off for a whole week. The very last night at the service we had communion. After communion, one or two kids came to the altar to pray (and cry.) Then two more came...then three...then four...until there were so many kids on the floor in front of the stage that you couldn’t see the altar. I was ok for a while until I started thinking...

"This is amazing. But imagine how many people aren’t here and aren’t having this one of a kind experience? Wait...why aren’t they here? Because...dumb people like me and you are just too lazy to save people's lives! It’s not fair."

Then I slowly walked to the altar. I knelt and began to pray...

"God...give me strength. Give me strength to spread your love to lost people. Give me the strength to not care if I look dumb or ‘over-passionate’ (if there is such a thing)."

Then came the tears.

"God help me not to judge people. I now understand that it isn’t my job to judge, it’s yours. Help me not to care if my friends make fun of me for trying to help people."

I then went to different groups and prayed for the individuals crying for about 20-25 minutes. Then I went off to myself again, and prayed for my brother and dad.

You see....some people don’t do things because they under-estimate themselves. Some are afraid of failure. But most...are simply lazy. And to tell you the truth...it ticks me off.

People die and go to hell, why? Cuz, we're too lazy to even try to help. I don’t know about you, but I intend to change the entire perspective of our so called Christianity. I’ve come to realize that our current “love for Christ” is fake. Please help...the world needs it.

-Logan