Sleeping

I have been reading in Luke for the Read the Bible in a Year and I came across the story of Jesus and the mount of Transfiguration. It talks about how they got to the top and the three disciples that he had with him were falling asleep. Then there is the story of Jesus praying in the garden and the disciples kept falling asleep there too. And a great analogy hit me. Here these disciples are sleeping through some really important things. I mean if they had fallen asleep on the Mountain that would have missed the sight of Jesus and the two transfiguration. And then here Jesus was counting on them in the garden to pray for him. So my analogy is that we should be Spiritually awake because we never know what is coming that we might miss. God cannot use us if we are sleeping. So we need to be awake and alert. We need to be ready to share our faith and to be excited about it. When we fall asleep we miss out on great things.
Sorry if that was hard to follow, the ironic thing is that while I am typing I am trying to stay awake. This week has been a long first week back to school. But I have really enjoyed it. I am teaching freshmen still and for the most part the kids are great. I went to their game on Wednesday and already had kids yelling at me from the sidelines and one came up and gave me a hug. Then this morning I had another student come in before school just to talk. So it is cool to see how fast some of these kids take to people who should them that they care. Then this year has been great because the first day of school some of my students from last year stopped by to see me. I have really missed my students over the summer so to get to see them again has been great. Over all it is looking like it will turn out to be another great year.
Hope that you all have a wonderful weekend!!!!