…about the time a middle schooler made me feel dumb? Ok, so not dumb. But sort of jealous of how cool he is. Let me tell you the story.

Sunday morning, I was hanging out in PowerUp. Most of the kids had gone to small group, so I was sitting around on the orange sofa with a couple of kids who didn’t go to a small group. We were sitting around the coffee table, building Lego things (AWESOME!) and we somehow got talking about how girls are smarter than boys, which is true. Anyway, this boy/young man (I don’t know what to refer to 6th graders as. They get offended if you call them kids, but young men seems much too old), in order to prove how much smarter than me he was, asked:

“If you are so smart, what is the meaning and purpose of life?”

Naturally, I don’t know the answer to this question. I was in the middle of making something up in my head, so that I didn’t sound like a moron (It is very important to not sound like a moron in front of kids, apparently) when he made some ridiculous buzzer noise and said:

“That’s so easy! The meaning and purpose of life is to worship Jesus!”

And it floored me. Here is what I thought, in this order:

1) Your mother and father would be so proud if they heard you say that.

2) Why didn’t I think of that?

3) When did my brain and heart get so confused that I forgot what the purpose of our lives is supposed to be?

I was so amazed/jealous/inspired by this kid’s response, that he is my hero for the week. I am not going to out some 12 year old as an amazing person for all the blogosphere (Serious? Do I seriously use words like “Blogosphere”?) to see, but ask me who it is sometime, and I will tell you, so that you can be secretly jealous of him too.