Top Ten Tuesday

The Top Ten Reasons Why I Love Working with Youth

1. The energy - Seriously, I wish I could harvest and sell that crap!
2. New eyes - Being able to see certain ideas through the eyes of a youth, ESPECIALLY a Jr High who is discovering many things for the very first time!
3. Being able to watch students, first hand, be challenged and stretched in crazy ways.
4. Being able to use my usual vocabulary of "dude", "yo", and "peeps" without feeling judged.
5. Spending time of Facebook that is considered work.
6. Watching students move through transitional times in life (e.g. elementary school to high school, high school to post-secondary/work/travel/etc.)
7. Feeling young and old at the exact same time, and sometimes for the same reasons.  (e.g. Playing dodge ball.)
8. Seeing growth and maturity not just socially, physically or psychologically but spiritually as well.
9. The uniform. (Mine usually consists of a hoodie and jeans.)
10. Being able to see kingdom dreams be dreamed, and knowing that these kids will live them out in amazing ways.