Rembrand's Lost Son

We had a youth evening today. We have it every thuestday actually. The bigwig is Kärt. She is reading (translating and reading!) the book "The Emotionally Healthy Church" for us. Oh and not only that! She is thinking out also activity for us! Last time we had to group feelings. She had lots of feelings on the paper pieces and we had to group them into 2 different groups; negative and positive ones. We got 3 groups. Positeve feelings, negative feelings and the feelings we didn't know where to set. I felt like 7 years old and it was great feeling! <- POSITIVE FEELING! The point of the evening was tha we should break down.

Today we had to watch Rembrand's Lost Son first and then discribe the Father, the Lost Son and his elder brother. And the pont of the evening was that we should identify ourselves with the Lost Son. We should kneel down and put our head into the Father's lap. And the Father here is God. We had to watch into ourselves to see are we elder or younger son and if we found we were elder then what should we do to be younger. Well... who told that life has to be easy and clear...

The other thought what I can remember was that are we able to be as a real family member for our congregation? Are we able to be friendly and opened for others around us? Are we able just to listen others? Are we?

Of course we are!

Till Kärt asked from us that what if our pastor would step into the room now and says he has a problem - it is not going well at work and he has problems with his children and wife, a member of church told to him he is not good in his work, his car just stopped working and he has no transport now and etc., etc. How would we act? Would we feel alright during that? Are we able listen him without big eyes and opened mouth? Ah? Mh?