LIFE

It was GREAT to see you all again on Friday night and tonight the topic was LIFE. As normal we started the evening with some FUN games enjoyed by all.... The Hospital Race... all about trying to get to the hospital as fast as you can so the baby is not born in the car!! Your D.Z leaders know all about that!!! :) Toss ball and umbilical cord wrap were also fun.

and building different objects with our bodies was a great challenge but you did really well

We then settled down and watched an amazing vedio about babies , we got to see ultrasounds clips of the baby at 4 weeks old. just amazing to see those precious little babies moving and jumping and smiling... wow it was very neat to see. Martijn then talked about LIFE...

"In here I have put all the parts that go to make up a watch. If they were all put together correctly it would go. Now, if I stood here shaking it like this, do you ever think it would put itself together and make a watch that goes? Of course not. But even if it did, it would still only be a machine. What do you think the chances are of it ever putting itself together and becoming alive, like Number 5 off Short circuit? Sounds absolutely crazy doesn't it? Now think of how much more complicated the human body is. Look at all the things you can do. You're a far more advanced machine than any watch and you're alive! What amazes me is that every one of us knows it's crazy to think this watch could put itself together by accident and no-one except__ a looney ever thinks it could come to life. But that's exactly how lots of people believe human life came, just by a bunch of chemicals floating around and then falling together by accident, to make you. That's what they'll teach you at school as the theory of evolution! When you think of that baby in the womb, growing, it seems even more crazy to call that an accident, than this watch coming together by accident. And yet if you say there is no God, that's the only explanation you can have for life! I know there's a watch maker, because something this clever could not have fallen together. Just the same, I know there's a God because something as brilliant as life just couldn't have fallen together!

Knowing that we were designed, with a purpose, gives the whole of our life a meaning and a purpose. I think it makes a lot more sense than saying we are accidents. It makes your whole life worth living. If God made us and everything around us, he has planned everything about our lives before we were even born, and he knows the best things for us.I know I'm much happier living how God wants, than I would beif I thought I was just a meaningless accident. Next timesomeone tells you that there is no God, think of the watch andremind yourself that if someone had to design that, someone hadto design you also. Remember there's only one way to get toknow God, by believing His son Jesus paid for all the things youhave done wrong when he died on the cross and that he cameback to life again to forgive us, if we put our whole life in hishands and choose to follow him, our designer!!

happy birthday to Angel and also to Thomas.....hope you both had a great day

have a good week and see you on friday at DZ

Luv your DZ leaders.