July 2012
128 posts
DAY 192
today was the last day of staff training ! Which has been an amazing week of fun & fellowship & growth & pretty much one of the best ones I’ve had here at this camp. Anyways, our weekend started at 1 today & my challenge for this particular day was to take some time off from being surrounded by people & just take a few minutes to relax & be by myself. Sometimes I...
June 2012
80 posts
DAY 191
Today’s challenge was to search for a spiritual gift of mine. Which was so awesome because RIGHT AFTER I decided this, I went down to a session for staff training & BAM ! We’re working on spiritual gifts all day.
So awesome ! The way people see me was completely different than what I believed. So God is clearly working in my life this summer in new ways which is ALWAYS...
DAY 190
I was hit by sort of a bomb last night right before I posted & I hope that would explain the delayed post, but it also gave me a chance to really really complete my challenge. Today’s challenge (well, yesterday’s now.. so sorry !) was to reach out into fellowship & not hold things on the inside. I had no idea what I would do for this one until the bomb hit out of nowhere....
DAY 189
my little brother graduated today ! And today really hit home the idea of finding true joy in others’ success. I felt such great joy & love for my little brobro crossing the stage & some of my friends who are is age. It was so special to be apart of their night, to see them closing a chapter of their lives & getting excited for the things about to come ! today’s...
DAY 188
Such great praise to God for today ! SO many thanks ! I’m so thankful for fellowship, TRUE christian fellowship. There are some amazing staff members here at camp who are older than I am & I’m just learning so much from just being around them, just watching how they talk to one another & how they keep each other on track. They make a point to stop each other from...
DAY 187
today, I think, was an amazing step in the right direction towards God - which either means I’m actually going in the right direction or I’m following my own path yet again. ANYWAYS ! I prayed & contemplated on which character trait I would focus on for the next while is thankfulness.
Today, I tried to add it into my life through small steps, such as constantly thanking God...
The world says "you're worthless;" God says...
DAY 186
Yesterday, the spiritual side of camp got super real. Like intense. As a senior staff, we got together & taking characteristics from Ephesians & Philippians, primarily chapters 4 in each, there were about 12. We were challenged to take 1 or 2 characteristics to work on.
The struggle for me was to listen to this long list & realizing that I was so so so very inadequate in all of the...
DAY 185
It actually hit me today that I’m at camp. That sent so many emotions through me, so many good & exciting feelings & I just sat in amazement. But I also let down my guard & that really sucked because I then was attacked by all these memories of my last boyfriend, who came to camp & became this amazing man & super fantastic Christian & everything I ever wanted. It was...
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DAY 184
today was definitely a test of my patience. I failed big time because I just didn’t trust God like I should have. I SHOULD have prayed when I was about to lose my temper, and before I left so that I wouldn’t get impatient & not treat the people I was with with little love..
Sometimes we feel like we’re going 2 steps forward but we find out we ended up 3 steps back. God is...
DAY 183
this morning while helping out with lunch prep in the kitchen, we were listening to a CD & this great song came on & it’s lyrics really hit me.
The lyrics that really got to me were..
“I don’t want to say another empty prayer”
and
“I don’t want to watch someone else doing the thing God told me to do myself”
That really really hit me. I know...
DAY 182
It’s an early start for me ! I think waking up early in the morning is one of those special moments because not everyone is awake & the world seems like a different place. There are birds & life & sunrises & so many things that we just MISS out on when we sleep in. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that sleeping in a couple extra unneeded hours is...
DAY 181
I made it out to camp ! I know this post is super late & I’m just about to hop into my new bed, but I needed to tell you guys my challenge for today: it was sort of simple at first, just to make it out to camp. But then as the day progressed, I realized that there was so much more that this challenge to turn into. Camp has always been a place where I could “find God”....
If people can't see Christ in me from just the...
DAY 180
hello to everyone ! I hope that your day has been as exciting as mine ! I truly do
today, I..
got my earlobes pierced
get to see Madagascar 3 & hang out with my family one last time
need to pack up for camp because I leave tomorrow morning ! Tomorrow, I’m off to do God’s work - for realsies.
Well, ok, so we always strive to do God’s work in everything...
“Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful,...”
– 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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DAY 179
to be honest, I’m going to keep my challenge the same as yesterday’s. It has been so much to think about & wrap my head around. So many more questions seem to be appearing. But they are so important for me to take a deeper look into.
Guys, I urge you to please look at your lives, to dig deep & find out if there are any questions shaking at your foundation. We need to be built...
DAY 178
today’s challenge is to figure things out. Or at least start to. I have been running from some pretty big life stuff. Not situations, but from confusion. I grew up knowing some things as foundational truths. Most of those things have been shattered & now the only true thing I know of is God & his amazing grace. Which is a fantastic thing to know, by the way & if you don’t...
DAY 177
stress stress stress ! Today was my big “lets pick coursing & pray that the beautiful schedule I planned out works in real life !” day. I saw my schedule & thought, “holy moly, when will I have time to eat!? or sleep?! or do homework?! or anything besides class?!” I have so many hours of class. Then add on work & working out & student training...
DAY 176
two challenges for today ! I woke up as a grouch, which sucked, so today I need the reminder to be POSITIVE ! It’s so weird to have to make an effort to show joy in my life & reign in all that negative emotion & thinking. But that’s part of today’s challenge. The second part is..
I need to make a donation box ! BECAUSE my announcement is going in my church...
“God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does. We’ve...”
– Romans 3:27-28 