{"id":281,"date":"2011-06-16T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askandy.fbclafayette.org\/?p=281"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:40:57","slug":"how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Have a Great Summer &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so you probably have a nice wish list of what your\u00a0totally cool\u00a0summer would be, like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to an amusement park<\/li>\n<li>Hang out with friends<\/li>\n<li>Go to a concert<\/li>\n<li>Make some money (somehow without working too hard)<\/li>\n<li>Go to the mall (girls)<\/li>\n<li>Play video games (guys) all day on-line with people that are not able to totally destroy you<\/li>\n<li>Go to a summer camp with some friends<\/li>\n<li>Visit someone away from home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you have plenty of other things on your list, hopefully not things that fit in the category of illegal or immoral, but let&#8217;s face it, that is the direction some head.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a second way to have a great summer: <em>read<\/em>.\u00a0 (Humor me.\u00a0 Keep reading.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, before you click and leave, let me give you some sarcastic reasons <em><strong>why not to read<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hello &#8211; Like you will\u00a0ever need to read&#8230;road signs, instructions at a job, paperwork purchasing a home, cooking, purchasing a car, taxes.<\/li>\n<li>You want to get ripped off every time you go to make a major purchase and can&#8217;t read the agreement.<\/li>\n<li>You want to rely on others in life all the time to tell you what things say or don&#8217;t say.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t want to learn because you know everything already.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t really want to know what is in the food you are eating or the crazy energy drink in your hand (that could cause major damage).<\/li>\n<li>You would rather have your brain slow down and even stop functioning earlier in life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here are the serious reasons for <em><strong>why to read<\/strong><\/em> for any who care:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You will be reading your whole life.\u00a0\u00a0Investing the time to improve your reading now and learning to enjoy it will only help you.<\/li>\n<li>Reading will open a whole new world for you.<\/li>\n<li>Learning to read well will help you improve in school and life.<\/li>\n<li>Spending time reading will expand your knowledge and put you in a better position to help others.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s much more fulfilling and beneficial to you than just watching a movie.<\/li>\n<li>Because most of you as teens have some extra time on your hands during the summer &#8211; a perfect time to read.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure parents, and you as a teen, can come up with tons of other reasons to read and not read, but I dare you to pick up\u00a0 a good book and read it.\u00a0 Let me suggest one I have recently read, but I don&#8217;t think most teens have the gutts to read.\u00a0 The book is <a href=\"http:\/\/fbclafayette.org\/store\/description.php?II=9781601422217&amp;UID=2011061618595272.12.198.130\">RADICAL by David Platt<\/a>.\u00a0 It may just radically impact your life.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so you probably have a nice wish list of what your\u00a0totally cool\u00a0summer would be, like Go to an amusement park Hang out with friends Go to a concert Make some money (somehow without working too hard) Go to the mall (girls) Play video games (guys) all day on-line with people that are not able&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33,26],"tags":[14,4231,53,42],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Have a Great Summer - Part 2  - 4:Twelve - Student Ministries Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Have a Great Summer - Part 2  - 4:Twelve - Student Ministries Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, so you probably have a nice wish list of what your\u00a0totally cool\u00a0summer would be, like Go to an amusement park Hang out with friends Go to a concert Make some money (somehow without working too hard) Go to the mall (girls) Play video games (guys) all day on-line with people that are not able... read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"4:Twelve - Student Ministries Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-25T17:40:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andy Woodall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andy Woodall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\",\"name\":\"How to Have a Great Summer - Part 2 - 4:Twelve - Student Ministries Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-25T17:40:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/#\/schema\/person\/934f220fcc7b6a9f8a564375a78be9e4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/how-to-have-a-great-summer-part-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Have a Great Summer &#8211; 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