twice in one day!?

saturday i was at a church downtown doing a service project. they had space, obviously money, manpower. so i was perplexed as to why we were there, couldn't they do it themselves? the truth was however, that they needed just as much help as any other group.

one student in the youth group that was helping us, her name was tori or vicki she let you pick, and she was wearing a tank top. when it was 50 degrees outside. she borrowed her youth pastors sweatshirt since she didn't have her own.

another student was off by himself, unincluded, and in talking to him i found that he was obsessed with japanese culture but no one was willing to listen to him. he knew more about japanese swords than i would ever want to know.

the last student i talked to in depth was a boy who was just hitting high school. he had been thrown into a school he didn't want, due to the columbus city school lottery. he liked skinny jeans, tight shirts, but he was completely straight. "it's hard to resist labels," he said "so sometimes i just give in and let them say what they want to say." i think that's a terrible mentality, but what are the choices? give in and fit in, or stand up and be harassed.

many people are obsessed with adopting children from third world countries, i admit i would like a multi cultural house as well. but there is a line, how come other countries are more attractive to fix, rather than looking internally and fixing our own?