The White Shadow

Did you used to watch The White Shadow? I loved that show! Well, tomorrow I am experiencing my own little episode of the white shadow, but it has nothing to do with basketball.

There's an 8th Grader at Forefront who has to shadow someone at work for a day, and his mother asked me. I said, "Ummm, no, he'll be bored to death" but she insisted he wouldn't. So ... tomorrow is the day. And I am afraid! This will be the most intimidated I've been going into work, maybe ever. Why?

Well, first is the aforementioned boredom factor. ("Okay kid, now I'm going to read a book." "Okay, now I'm going to type on my computer." "Okay, now I have to go to the bathroom.")

Second is that we will scar this kid for life. Like ... we have our Monday morning Creative Team Meeting tomorrow, which he'll be sitting in. At one of these meetings, back in November, we had an extended conversation about hiring a stripper to be in a Forefront skit. Not to strip! But we just didn't feel comfortable asking anyone from Forefront to play a part we were talking about, so someone jokingly said, "We should hire a stripper to do it" which led to a long talk about whether we could do that, and whether it could be a creative form of evangelism. ("We could hire strippers every week to do something in our service - we'd lead 'em all to Christ! Pretty soon there wouldn't be any strippers left to hire!") So you see what I mean about scarring this kid. Plus, people get shot a lot at our office.

There's probably some other fear factors, but I'll just end there. So, I don't know, maybe pray for me? Actually, pray for this kid.

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