All in uniform and ready for students :)
This weekend I was talking with my mom on the phone. I told her that the two attributes of God that have really stood out to me this summer would be God's Transcendence complimented by his Immanence. The God I serve is very clearly the King of the Universe. He displays it in creation as well as in so may facets of life. Yet there is this beautiful paradox at play in that God cares about the details of life and enters into the adventure with us even though he is holy. One example of this happened when one of my fellow staffers misplaced his backpack that had some important materials in it. It was missing for almost the whole week of camp and we thought it had been stolen. But then, only hours before we were going to leave Virginia, God allowed for us to find it. It felt silly praying for a backpack to be found, but God reminded me that he care about the details and blessed us by allowing it to be found. Little miracles like that happen every day during camp and are tangible examples of how God engages in both the large and small of life. That is a huge comfort to me as well as a reminder to always be looking for how God is working in and around me.
Here are the bullet points of blessings for the week:
- Our camp director taking the staff team out the Cheesecake Factory over the weekend
- Strong water pressure in the shower at the dorm
- Sitting on the counter and munching on an avocado (When you live life on the road for 2 months, vegetables are huge blessings :D. Plus avocados are just epic in general)
- The 1/2 mile walk to the lecture hall every day. It allowed for me to ask purposeful questions with my girls each day as we went back and forth from the lecture hall and the dorm
- Co leading with Lauren
- Talking to Danielle on the phone while sitting at the beach in Virginia Beach, VA
- Having a seagull poop on my phone at the beach....(I am all about new experiences ;))
- Giggling with my team during staff meeting
- Having a dear friend from my team last year come and visit.
- A blackberry latte
- The huge sunroof on the ceiling in the cafeteria that made it feel like we were eating a picnic outside because of all of the sunlight happily streaming into the room.
- Feeling the Atlantic ocean breeze
- Being able to talk honestly with two of my girls about struggles about body imagine and how we can view ourselves rightly as image bearers of God
- The small group time where we discussed God's redemption in our lives and why being a Christian matters to us
- Chocolate covered berries
- God holding back the thunderstorms that were supposed to happen on Wednesday during evangelism. Instead of rain we had gorgeous sunshine the entire time at the boardwalk by the ocean.
- Playing spoons with my girls and seeing how competitive they got about it. Instead of using spoons, we played with jolly ranchers. This made it really hard to grab one because they were so small. One of my girls dove full out under my legs in order to successfully grab one.
- 3 Ships Coffee Shop
- Potato Salad
- Taking a shower and then having my hair dry in less than 10 minutes because of the humidity outside being so high
- Tall green trees on campus
- Having one of my girls tell me that if she ever got sick and had to go the hospital, she would want me as her nurse. :)
- Walking with a fellow staffer and sharing as many blessings as we could think of from that day
- Bacon at breakfast
- Having a cookout with the students and faculty during Thursday night dinner
- Receiving lots of wedding updates from friends back home as two of my friends got married. I was so sweetly included in all of the festivities even though I was over 2,000 miles away from Idaho
- Seeing how the staff guys on my team so purposefully protect us girls both at camp and on the weekends
In closing, I wanted to share this quote that reminded me to take joy in the little things and marvel at the handiwork of God. G.K. Chesterton wisely said.....
"It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them."
May I continue to rejoice in the beauty all around me as I finish out this summer.
~Rachel
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