Teens, scissors, and snowflakes

If you ask me, that can be a dangerous combination. Can you imagine a bunch of teens with scissors trying to make snowflakes?

I can. I was there. The snowflakes aren't dangerous, but giving us teens a bunch of scissors, now that's kinda dangerous. You know how teens can be especially the boys with rough housing. Thank goodness none of that happened on Wednesday.

The first thing we did in youth group on Wednesday was take a quiz, a Christmas quiz. This question had two of my friends and I cracking up:

4. How did the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe develop?
a. It is associated with a Scandinavian love goddess
b. Mistletoe makes your mouth pucker
c. It was used in druid wedding rituals
d. It was an old Jewish practice
e. None of the above

Can you guess which one we were laughing at and actually put as our answers. We are so mature sometimes. The 3 of us put b, but the answer was actually a. Of course, who knows, you all might have thought it was b too just like the rest of us.

After our quiz, we learned about snowflakes. Did you know that no 2 snowflakes are the same? In the same way, did you know that none of our fingers have the same exact finger print? Each one is different. Who creates humans? Who creates snowflakes?

There is one answer to that. The Creator of course. God! It's really cool and super amazing to think that God has so creativity.

No 2 snowflakes are the same. No 2 humans are the same (unless you're twins, but even twins are different). That wasn't really the point of the lesson though.

As we were making our snowflakes from specially printed out copies of snowflake making design thingys, we got the point of the lesson. Last week and actually for the last few weeks, we've been talking about jobs and what God wants for our lives.

We have free will, so we can do whatever we want pretty much. That's just about equal to cutting out a snowflake anyway you want to. Sometimes you make a mistake and your snowflake gets messed up. Sometimes that happens in real life. We make bad choices, which can mess up our life.

Have you ever made or tried to make a snowflake? Did you mess up? Did you find out later that the mess up was a good thing?

I think it's the same way with us humans. God has our lives planned out. When we mess up and take a slight detour, God can fix it. Sometimes making a mistake or messing up and taking a detour can be a good thing. God can fix it and the plan just goes on from there.

I think that's really cool. What about you?