God's Grace in the Midst of Middle School Misery
GOD'S GRACE IN THE MIDST OF MIDDLE SCHOOL MISERY by Virginia Knowles 8th grade San Carlos, California. April 1977. I had just announced to my classmates that our family was moving to Baltimore. A red headed chick named Kathleen burst out, “Yay! Now we won’t have to pick her for our teams in gym class anymore!” I have laughed about that many times since then, but there was also still a sting from the constant and cruel peer rejection that I suffered for so many years. I’m sure many of you can relate. Middle school kids can still be vicious. Maybe this happened to you or maybe you treated other kids like that. Middle school misery is real. Well, I was one of those middle school outcasts. I dressed and acted weirdly. I talked too much. I played chess at lunch time in the school library with the other outcast nerds, or we hung out at the nerd bench in the playground. I had one dear Christian frien...