The Words To Say

Have you ever heard the song "Speak For Me" by Jaci Velasquez? Consider some of thse lyrics:

What have I to offer to a world in need
Yet for some unknown reason
You have chosen me
Lord, you've set my journey
You've prepared the way
Still I'm desperate for the words to say
All I am is willing
All I have is in your hands
Speak for me, this my plea
Say the words I can't express
Sing for me, a heavenly melody
that the people will be blessed
Speak for me

This coming Sunday I am supposed to speak for a Church Youth group about Justice, and I seem to have lost my words. I am visiting Tommy at Walnut Creek, and his youth group will start their journey to learn about God's Justice this Sunday. He ordered the "Justice Mission" ciriculum for his kids [as any good youth minister should] and will doing an introduction to the study this week. It is my job to introduce the basics of God's Justice. What is it? Why should we care? Why don't we normally care? I usually have so much to say on the subject but as of now, have almost nothing.

I am on a breif 4 day vacation from Law School and couldn't be happier about gettiing to spend time with him here. But I will tell you one thing, I am absolutely exhausted. My brain is completely toasted. In order to avoid studying for my Crim Law Midterm on Tuesday, or even work on my lesson for Sunday morning, I have been cleaning Tommy's office. [And as those of you who have seen it know, it's not as if it didn't need it...u know?] So compeltely toasted am I that I am not sure how to communicate the wrenching in my heart I feel for God's love of the oppressed.

How do you even start? Do I start with startling statistics? A quote that strikes people's hearstrings? Do I ask them where thier shirts come from? None of these seem to be appropriate. It seems almost wrong to communicate what I truly believe to be a theological concept by tugging on people's heartstrings to get them to listen. Perhaps that's all one can do though.

What verses am I supposed touse? The Psalmic Triad? The charge of Isaiah? The True Fasting Doctrine? THERE IS JUST SO MUCH...

But God will come and sit beside me and the spirit will give me the words if I could just be still and remember HIm. That's it, the memory of God. That's the key. I know now where to begin...