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PARENTS OF TEENS: NO FEAR

I’m co-chairing the entertainment committee for our high school’s Post-Prom event. It’s a party at school from midnight to 5 a.m. to keep the kids from doing scary things out on their own. To make it exciting, we’re adding a Fear Factor event – you know, where contestants do incredibly gross or frightening things in order to win cash.

We parents are planning the most spectacular, hilarious and scary events we can think of, to keep those kids’ attention. We’ve had five hours of meetings so far, but it has seemed like only five minutes. That’s how much fun this is.

To break the ice and start the brainstorming, I suggested that we go around the room and tell what we’re not afraid of, but other people are. I thought it would all be pretty tame stuff, like my “baiting a hook.”

But nooooo. One woman said she wasn’t afraid to . . . PARA-SAIL! Another has CHOPPED CHICKENS’ HEADS OFF! Another, a retired police officer, said he was never afraid to bust down a door into a meth lab or whatever, as long as he was FIRST in line, not second, since by the second officer, the bad guys often have their wits about them and start shooting.

These kids don’t have a prayer . . . because we parents have no fear.

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Prayer request: Thank You, Father, for giving us a good, Godly leader in George W. Bush. Bless his inauguration today, and his second term. Hold him and his family close to You and safe and well. May our nation continue to give You glory and try to spread Your ways of liberty around the world. Thank You, too, for helping orchestrate free elections in Iraq at the end of this month. Place a hedge of protection around all the American military people who will be delivering voting machines, since the insurgents will be trying to kill them and prevent that from happening. Oh, Father, we know freedom and peace are always at the center of Your will. Grant them to the Iraqi people, in Jesus’ Name. (Hosea 14:6)