Is "enjoying" the right word?

     My posts have been much shorter lately.  Probably because I am very busy.  I am still in Religious Education Mania.  I am coming up with some fun things to help get the students interested.  At least I hope they will think that they are fun.  I just never know.  Things that I think are fun turn out to not really be fun.  Then the things that I fear are too "young" or "immature" they have a blast doing.  I guess that is okay as long as they are learning what they need to learn.  Maybe they enjoy the simplicity of the more child oriented games because they are tired and want to relax a bit.  I can't have them sleeping in class though.  

     Teachers who challenge get more out of their students, but what if the students don't really feel that they need to be there?  It feels like if we try to challenge them too much, they just won't show up.  There has to be an overlap between fun and learning that I can use to get them interested.  

     I went to the Stations of the Cross/Communion Service again last night.  I am really enjoying it.  Well, I don't know if enjoying is the proper word, but I am getting a lot out of it.  Our Deacon's homilies focus on the actual events that took place during the Passion.  It gets very graphic and a little gory, but I think it is necessary for us to really understand what Jesus went through.  The things that we think are problems or annoyances have nothing on what this guy actually went through.  It all seems very neat and clean in the pictures of the stations.  I have a feeling it was anything but clean in real life.  I feel that it is good that we are reminded of this at least once a year.  I wish more people would come to the Stations.  It is really moving.  I think that people would feel very differently about what is going on in their lives if they were reminded of what was given up for them.  Things given up not just by Jesus, but by others who give of their time, talents, and especially lives.  I keep praying that more people will realize how important it is to have faith.  We need to look a little deeper than our everyday lives, all the things that keep us too busy to have a relationship with God.  After all, we only have these lives because of Him.