Emphasis Preaching Journal

Normally I love teaching Confirmation class. However, I remember one year that I found teaching Confirmation a chore. That was the year Sandra first started class. Sandra was thirteen years old. She was an intelligent, deeply caring person. Unfortunately, Sandra felt as if no one liked her and that everyone was out to get her. Consequently, she verbally and physically lashed out at others before they could hurt her. Naturally, the class treated her in the same way that she treated them. Nothing I tried seemed to end the hostility that disrupted every class. I was at my wit's end.