Day Nine:  We won the door decorating prize!!  The girls are so excited!!

Today we looked at the "Faces of Meth" and saw pictures of people that have become addicted and how quickly it causes serious physical changes.  Once again, the girls just couldn't understand how people would want to do these drugs knowing what it might do to them.  This afforded me an opportunity to have conversation concerning how these Meth users didn't start with a "hard" drug like Meth, they probably all started in middle school or high school with the first beer or cigarette- the "gateway" drugs.

I was able to say to them that as they get older that they would find more temptation for drugs as they gained more and more independence from their parents and that "when" they might first be offered a drug, statistics say that it will be by a friend.  I encouraged them to take to heart and to remember the facts that they have been learning about the dangers of drug use.

I am so fortunate to be able to be in a school such as Trinity where I was able to pray this for them from Jeremiah 31: 33.  "Father, may you put your truth in their minds and write it on their hearts so that they may make wise decisions as they grow older.  May you be their God and they be your people."  May our God shelter and protect them from the harms of drug use!