It is currently almost 2 am and again i cant sleep! Though in this not sleeping i have been deep in though...
I dont have much to back up this though and really it is mealy an observation...
Background info:As part of my course i needed to find a youth work placement, this is easier said than done, but i have one and i will be working for/with Kings Church (its quite like Arun but scale it up !!! then up again!)
In this i was thinking about young people and their journey with Christ, and then something that the youth worker said about the congregation having a lot of single parents.
I know that for me personally the thought of seeing God as my Father when my dad on Earth who isnt such a great role model was hard, though i strongly believe my dad loves me we have never had the best relationship. (air go)This is something Jim asked me to talk about to a church in Bristol once, after i had done so about 10 people came up to me and said they had also struggled with seeing God as their Father due to one reason or another. If the rate of single parents is rising (for whatever reason) this surely means that this issue will be arising a lot more within our youth and small groups... How are we going to deal with this? What is the best way of dealing with this very personal issue?
There you go 2am ramblings i hope you can make sense of them because i cant!
2pm edit: what i was trying to get at is the fact that with an increasing amount of single mothers there will be a generation who find it hard to relate to God as their Father as they cant relate to their Earthy father figure...
