Kid Nation

I don't know how much you all watch tv(if at all), but I've been following a new show this season - Kid Nation. For years I have believed that kids often get the short end of the stick in life; they get passed over for being young, and grown ups tend to only half listen when many kids are talking.

The show goes something like this:
There are 40 kids(or so)under the age of 15 brought together to a ghost town in New Mexico(I think!). While there, they are expected to build a town from scratch, like the pioneers would have done back in the day. They are seperated into 4 teams and compete to acheive various classes (upper, cooks, labourers, etc.). There is a town council consisting of 4 kids chosen before the show started and they make the overall decisions for the town. To help them make their decisions, they read a journal that is meant to be from the pioneer days, to assist them in learning how to create a town.
Tonight, the journal talked to them about religion and how figuring out what they believe could really bond them together. One of the kids went around figuring out what the religious backgrounds of them all were, and they spent a little time fighting over what was right and what was wrong. In the end, one of the girls brought them all together around a bonfire for prayer and thanksgiving. Many of the kids prayed for each other, for their time together and for strength - one of the jewish boys came and sang his prayer, closing their time together and really, really binding them together. I was blessed just to watch.

If you haven't talked(or listened)to a kid lately, do it. I promise it'll be worth it.

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12