For third grade LaBronte, one of his highlights was shaving.  While looking at the mirror, I caught him staring at me shaving on Saturday morning.  He asked for a little shaving cream on his fresh 8 year old face.  A few others came into the sink area and asked for shaving cream on their face, too.  I obliged and “shaved” them all with the back of my razor.  As I did I remembered with great fondness the many mornings I watched my father shave.

We had an incredible retreat with many success stories, but it’s instructive to me that what our students will remember most are the little incidents that we didn’t even think to plan.  We have a creative God who captures our imagination in between all of the planning we do.  Maybe I need to plan less and be present more…