Why I Do This (my eschatology for student ministry)

In it simplest of simple forms- GRACE. I know this appears to be name dropping while perusing the theological vocab of churchy folk but it isn't. Grace in its purest essence is so simple while still being so deep and mind frying. I could teach a person in 30 seconds what grace is and I could spend 3 years teaching it and never run out of fertile teachable ground.
For me to begin to understand why I invest my life in teenagers, aside from the most obvious reasons (insanity, high levels of lithium, absence of maturity, insanity, insanity) , and withholding the churchy answers, I think it helped me to begin to develop my Christialogical eschaton which is inextricably woven into the belief in God's grace for humankind. That somehow through God's eerie mystery and deep majesty a broken clay pot of a human like myself can be found usable and even preferred to be a vessel of grace and love to teens. Not that ever I have lived a day of righteous worth, merited honor, earned blessing, but that only through the patient love and humbling grace of God I am allowed to do what I do. As I am profoundly imprinted day after day through the blessing of service I find worth, peace, gracious burden for others, and love beyond my despairs.
My deep belief that God is in pursuit of human kind- EVERY person and desires to pour out love and grace in their lives drives my passion for ministry and my vision of hope for humanity. That nothing is righteous but that through which the cloak of Christ covers. We all need to experience grace. We are all broken in some way or fashion- even the people who think they aren't. I do this because I have experience God's love through God's profound grace and there was only but one option to my response- pour out those things on all those around me.
I am a man blessed beyond words not of my own action but of the action and work of God through Christ and the Spirit. I have the great privilege of working for and with teens, many whom are not yet or just getting started on their faith journeys. It is my belief that in the end God's grace shall triumph over our lives and love will prevail. That the end times for those cloaked with Christ is but yet a beginning of another mysterious journey into the wild life of grace beyond death.
I do this... because I must respond. I must act on that which has been given me. To do anything less would be complete insanity. I must share the hope, the beauty, the healing, the favor, the enlightenment of our God-made selves with those around me. It is so inextricably me that I can no longer separate my vocation with my self. That which God continues to pour in me, faith, hope, love, and GRACE, must flow into the lives of others. Some days I am faithful to God's lead and some I am not. O that day I might remember why I do this and press on toward the blessings of the day waiting for me as I serve in this world and in the lives of teens.