Catching Up

It's been a really busy past few weeks. We finished up with 1b last week and are almost through the first week of 2A. The summer is over half-way over. Below I have a few thoughts that I have been writing down from various days.

Monday, July 4th.
As I sat down for breakfast this morning, the song "Stronger" by Hillsong United was playing. As I sat at my table watching my kids, seeing their smiling faces, this feeling of peach and contentment came over me. It was one of those kyrios moments where everything was just right. In the song "stronger" the words from the chorus seemed to stick out. You are stronger, sin is broken. You have saved me. It is written, Christ is risen. Jesus, you are Lord of all.
Until we get to heaven we will live in a broken world. In this world, we will be let down by others. We will continue to sin despite our best efforts not to. Today, that one moment made me feel like none of that brokenness mattered. All that mattered was that one moment and it was good. Thank you God for that boost of medicine!

Tuesday, July 5th
Difficult Circumstances. The trip last night didn't go exactly as planned. We arrived at Jackson Park in Hendersonville for a Lumberjack/car show/ fair in celebration of the 4th of July. When we arrived, the park was empty. Apparently it had been moved to the day before because of weather. So, Jeremy and I got in to the mini van and drove to Bi-Lo to buy stuff to keep the kids entertained.

This morning we had a tribal meeting. to plan where we would camp out and who we would go with. We had already picked where we wanted to go and whom with. Then, at our Tribal Meeting, our Tribal Leader changed it all. It was kind of disappointing. I am paired with a cabin that, let's just say, wouldn't have been my first choice.

Things don't go as planed sometimes. Sometimes we can see abrupt changes as a good thing other times not so much. We made the best out of the trip last night and the kids had a blast. Tonight, for this camp out, I don't know what to expect. I am not to pumped about the other cabin we have to go with. However, I will try to keep an open mind and trust that it will all work out.


Thursday, July 7th

Well, last night I went to Crestridge, the girls camp to see the Doctor. I have bronchitis. Not fun....


The camp out Tuesday night was awesome. We had great weather despite a rocky start. We were able to watch fireworks from the conference center while we were on top of the mountain. We had the best view and it was amazing. In this blog post, I put a few pictures from that camp out.

Over the last day it's become apparent just how much the kids watch us as counselors and how they model our every move.

We have been listening to Aaron Keyes new CD, "Dwell" a lot in the cabin. There is a song "I am not the Same" on the CD. The kids have really liked it and have asked several times if they could listen to it. It's really cool to see God work through these kids through the music we listen to.

I bought another pair of five fingers toe shoes the other day and the kids think they are cool and they want to go home and buy some.

Sometimes it's the littlest things that these kids take note of and that in itself is really cool to see. This is the last full day with the kids and we getting to the halfway point in the summer.