A Fresh Start

Summer once again has come to an end. I feel as though if I would of blinked, I would have missed summer altogether! It came, and it left oh so quickly! But, as I begin to feel fall in the air and see it in the yellow leaves that are starting to appear, I am ready for a change of pace!

Camp was wonderful. Wonderful seems like a pretty good word to describe what I experienced this summer. Now, before you go and thing that that word means this summer happened without a hitch, your wrong. This summer was hard. It was exhausting. It was fun. It was challenging. It was new. It was a learning curve and it was wonderful.

I got to experience camp from a different vantage point than what I am used too, behind a desk. I didn't spend a whole lot of time outside, which means my skin didn't see much sunlight, hence my milky glow :) But, the office was air conditioned, which I thanked God for almost every day because I am not quite used to this Manitoban humidity! God taught me a lot about depending on him, and looking to him daily for the right kind of confidence. He taught me how to work with others, and that I am oh so selfish! He taught me the importance of being weak, even though my pride took a hit many times this summer. He showed me time and time again that he does BIG things, and that the power of the Gospel is so needed! Lives were changed this summer at camp- not because it's a Bible Camp, not because of our staff, or the wonderful administrator that sits behind the desk on a daily basis, but because HE is GOD.

I saw brokenness this summer in so many forms. So many lost souls in this world who don't know what real love is. So many broken families, broken relationships and broken hearts. So many hardened hearts, tainted by the world and the lies that it whispers to them. But God fixed relationships, God restored hope in so many young peoples lives, God softened hearts and most importantly God saved and redeemed many this summer for Him!

I am thankful for this summer and what it taught me, it's funny looking back and thinking of all that I learned and all that I saw God do- I didn't really see it all then, but I see it now.

It was different being newly married and working this kind of job, especially with my husband working outside of the camp ministry. Being newly married is hard! I desire time with my husband, all the time. I think i'd be the first to admit that i'm a fairly needy person- and this was a summer of sacrifice. Now i say that not to toot my own horn and make you think that I am such a Holy person because I sacrificed so much this summer. The truth is, I could of sacrificed more. But at the same time, growing in my relationship with my husband, is oh so important to! This summer we learned how to balance- and were not even close to being done that lesson!

But like I've said before, I'm ready for a fresh start. For those leaves to fall, and the air to get colder-for the snow to begin to fall and wash away the old, and bring us the new! Change is good, and i'm ready for a change of pace.