.jeri.

I know this may sound a bit weird, but I'm kind of creeped out while walking around campus this week. You see, we're hosting a major conference for Christian teens. That's a good thing. They're all having a great time here. Actually, it's nice to see happy kids running around in the afternoons. But at lunch time, it gets creepy. I'm assuming they have a scheduled time for prayer and meditation, and that they're told to do that wherever they like on campus. Wherever they like has turned out to be all over the steps outside our office, on benches lining the walkway from our office, and in multiple places around the library. Basically, there's a whole trail of them from my office to my car. And they all look depressed. I'm sure they're not. They're probably just having a heartfelt moment with God, but to the casual observer, it looks like the campus has been littered with depressed teens. Silent, depressed teens. Do you know how weird it is to see that many teens yet hear absolutely nothing when surrounded by them? It's basically like experiencing a scene from The Birds (without the occasional cooing). I step out of the door, and see that I'm surrounded, and make my way quietly past all the silent, depressed-looking teens. And it feels like that last scene of the movie, where they try to make their escape to the car, which is exactly what I'm trying to do. And it's just plain creepy.

And how terrible am I for being weirded out by a moment that probably means so much to so many of them?!