Ahem.

My own high school days are on my mind this morning as we’re starting a new semester of our high school program, Glow, today. A couple of different groups of our lovely volunteers will head out to local high schools today bearing gifts of processed cheese and tortilla chips. And, because some things just never change, the high school girls will come running with glee right towards that disgusting cheese.

After teaching the precious pumpkins about Jesus, the volunteers will head back to our main office and drop off their empty nacho cheese containers which I will force an office volunteer to thoroughly scrub happily clean with the joy down (deep, very deep) in my heart.

A mere 1.5 hours after the cheese has been disposed of, a giggling group of more high schoolers will descend upon our office for a little something we call “Glow at Nite.” And yes, I am aware that “nite” is spelled incorrectly. But then again, so is Starlite. We believe in training these girls to spell words wrong from a young age so they won’t depart from it as they grow up.

Anyway, these girls — all of whom are either sophomores, juniors or seniors in high school — will spend the next couple of hours learning about… well, the wicked girls of the Bible. Oh and they’ll have some dessert while they do it because, really, how else would you host a Bible study for high school girls without involving chocolate. It is, after all, the perfect accompaniment to processed cheese on stale tortilla chips.

Speaking of which, someone needs to start getting this stuff ready and it looks like it is gonna have to be me. Glory.