Just a day...

I’m not going to lie today was a pretty unproductive day. However, it was a good relaxing day. I think that today was a good day for us to relax before we start work tomorrow. I woke up and spent some time in the Word. I read through Psalm three and was reminded of how God is my protector. He is a shield around me and he lifts up my head. I lay down and I wake again because He sustains me. He keeps me going and is all I need. Nothing can harm me as long as he is my protector. I read this and was reminded again later of why faith in God is so important to my life.
After dinner, a few of us decided to go to Starbucks which was about thirty minutes away from camp. Tim was driving and he was the only one who knew how to drive stick. Tim is also night blind. However, we thought we would get back just in time before the sun went down. This did not turn out to be true. It started out getting only a little dark and then darker and even darker. We missed the road we were supposed to turn on because we could not read the sign. And so we were back tracked even more. This is where I was reminded of faith in God and also what it means to be a body. We could at this point only rely on the fact that God would protect us and keep us safe. Not only that, but that he would give us all focus on what was ahead of us to keep the car going in the right track. It was by his peace that we all kept calm and did not freak out. When things started to get kind of nerve wrecking, we had to depend on his peace to be within us. And we learned what it means to work as the body because we had to help be Tim’s eyes. We had to watch out for the things that he could not see. We had to work together as a car so that we made it back safely. Needless to say, God is good.
Tomorrow, we start real work and I am incredibly excited for that. However, I do not know what I am doing yet, but that is okay…I’ll figure it out, ha. Seriously though, we have an amazing staff who is already here and I am pumped to see how God uses us this summer. He has awesome plan for all of us, I know he does. Everyone here has so many gifts from God and they are so ready to use them. It is going to be a great summer.

I am really excited for God to be transforming me this summer. I am ready to be stretched and made uncomfortable. I am ready for him to move in me and to take out what needs to be taken out and add in what needs to be added in. I am ready to understand patience to its fullest and hopefully start to practice it more. I am ready to learn what it means to let go of things and allow him to have them. I am ready to learn in general.