the power of the armpit

So to give a little background. At chapel this week, I was the speaker. I spoke to the older grades on fear and how it exists way too much in our world. It's a tool the devil tries to use to seek and destroy our hearts. Taking up Jesus, and abiding in Him, we can conquer the fears we have, for Jesus is perfect love, He will see us through (and there is no fear in perfect love). you can refer to 1 John or email me, and I'd be happy to send you all the notes and outline for the talk.

I thought chapel went well, and I tried to say some humorous things during my talk to keep the kids attentive. One of the things I said at the beginning was that I get really nervous when I get up in front of people to speak. It's one of my fears. Later in the talk, I was talking about what fear does to us, and I said, see for example, my fear causes my armpits to sweat profusely. I even offered for anyone to come and see for themselves the extent to which I leak.

So flash forward to today. I'm sitting in the library after school, and a 6th grader (who is not one of my students, so I don't know him or his name) comes up to me, and starts talking to me, and he asks me,
-"well so how does it happen?"
-I'm kind of distracted by what I'm doing on the computer, so I say, "what do you mean, how does what happen?"
-"the armpit sweating, why does it sweat so much?"
-"uhhh, well, I think it's a psychological response the body has when it is really nervous. there's probably more sweat glands in the armpit, so you know, you just sweat more there." I respond, talking out of my rear end.
-"oh, ok" he responds... "because I'm 13 and I'm starting to grow some hair there, so I just wanted to know."

there you have it. inquisitive minds and the power of the armpit.