What I learned at VBS....

This year Vacation Bible School is officially over...the last Chord was played, note sang, snack ate, craft made, game played, and child picked up. This year we did an entirely different program we wrote our own...and Called it Kids For Christ Days/Camp (depending who you ask :)...well anyway a lot of hours were but into writing/argg. songs and skits. Figuring out the games, crafts and snacks...and it has all been really fun...Instead of doing saints this year we did the parables, namely the Sower and the seed, The good Samaritan, the labors in the vineyard, the parable of the talents, and the prodigal son....the words for the day were Learn and Grow, kindness, hope, share, trust/come home...It was a great topic to cover and me being the bible geek that I am was in heaven. The kids seemed to love it as well many of them said they wish it would go all summer long. Which I can see why, they get to have fun all day, get to have see all of their friends all day, and they get to learn about Our Faith all day.  The skits were AMAZING and all written by Ann Schlosser. And she did amazing they all were straight and to the point and helped even me understand the parables....I had an amazing band put together of Ben Garton, Chris Garton, Matt Andreski, and Jordan Seman....and we rocked we had drums, bass, guitar, keys, and an amazing voice. But yet again it wasn't about the music this years word(s) for me was Fellowship, trust, love, honesty, Patience and hope.  I had fellowship with my band mates from rocking your grace is enough to just soloing on guitar as Benny G did a sweet drum beat. It was an amazing setting with a stage and a full band...I don't know if any pics were taken but man it was awesome when it came to that. I learned what trust really means and how to give trust back. I had grayson again this year but he was a bit more of a handful (see bottom) but I still loved every minute of it. And at the same time I had to give the trust back Jen was giving me with her son. And trust she trusted me with him. I learned love because I can say that I really did and do love watching Grayson, I see his whole family as a part of my ever growing extended family. I will be bold enough to say I see Grayson, Gianna, and Gabe as my siblings and I can feel a real connection...I learned Honesty because Matt was brutally honest all of the time no matter what it was...which was the best thing for me because I need to know some times I am wrong...and I am not perfect. Just see the bottom for pacence you will understand...and Hope...well there was a lot of hopeful moments through the journey. It started with being hopeful that everything would go well seeing as how we changed music no early that 5 days before....then I was hopeful that Gianna wouldn't drop my guitar because she carried it everyday from music to church across a parking lot... :) Also I can't say thank you enough to our AMAZING VBS director Tara Snyder. She was amazing through the whole process letting people have some creative freedom and not be a control freak about everything and want to micro manage. During the week she was even more awesome and relaxed and then gave Birth to Jack the new baby! He also did a great job of not coming early :) It was truly a blessed week...It was weird though at the same time because Michelle wasn't there  and usually she helps but she had summer classes so she couldn't it was quite unfortunate and I missed her at times but she had to be in class so one year wasn't too bad...but she better never do it again...but there is one more reason why it was so amazing. 


I honestly could write a whole blog on Grayson from this week, but I am going to try and condense it. This is the last year I will have to watch Grayson during VBS so it was bitter sweet in the end really.  Because It is awesome he will get to participate in all of the actives and get to make some new friends. But I will miss having him with me all day in music and such. This year it has been completely different...Last year was easy, I could carry him around he wasn't potty trained, and he was just happy to sit there.  This year he is in his terrible two's, can talk, walk/run, and is potty trained,.and doesn't get wiped out at 11:45 like last year.  He is also very bashful. But he came around about mid week. Then he just didn't stop but I loved every minute of it. I learned even more this year...Like how awesome kids really are. I started to understand what the plan of meeting this amazing family is. How people can see how well things go through out a week. Even to the point of people asking if Grayson was my son or if I was even related in any sort of way. Which I am not to my knowledge but look at the picture above and you can see the resemblance...it is kind of freaky, and it doesn't help responds soooo well to me...and I seriously have grown very fond of him to the point that I feel like I am that adult male figure that he or any person needs in there life...and it is a great feeling. Apparently Gabe, Grayson's older brother told people I was his big brother (meaning that I was Gabe, Gianna, and Grayson's Big Brother). and then I explained to his friends family isn't just blood it is some thing you feel inside of you. It is amazing feeling to know that a child would feel that way. It gave me a mixture of warm fuzzies and goose bumps.  but it is a much more mental feeling of what Family really is. That is some thing else I learned and observed over time in my life. Some times your Family is not just your biological family, but it can be much more. Look at the 12 Jesus Chose some of them were really family and others were the scum of the earth but all were apart of the family of 1st Christians. When I talked to Jennifer about this she really liked the idea it seemed of me taking on that role and I am very fond of that role as well. So we will see what happens.  Anyway this was a great week! and I can't wait for next year's planning to begin...
AMEN!

~Bobby