Dear Readers

Dear Readers,


This is not a blog about knowing Christ better; in fact, it is nothing like any of my blogs. I wanted you all to know about what I am doing with my summer and what God has done to make the events of the summer even possible. 
I am going to be gone for all of July and most of August. Starting on Monday I will be at  Camp Eden in Golden, Colorado for two weeks. The first week I will be helping out as a counselor in training working with 4th through 6th grade girls. Like all little people, they are high energy and can be a very big handful. In the end though, I always miss them when they go. 
Second week of camp is for teens. I will be attending, not helping, for this week, but just because it is no longer my responsibility to be pouring everything that I am into the campers does not mean that I should take a vacation from being a blessing. My prayer is that I would come back from my two weeks at camp completely empty; that I will have poured myself out 100% to everyone that came in contact with me. 
After camp is all done I will be home for a day and half to do laundry before I go to Cheyenne, Wyoming where I will be living with the Tim and Sue Smith family to learn how to cook under Mrs. Smith and to drink from her fountain of knowledge. I am looking forward to this so much because they are a couple that when you have had one simple conversation with them you walk away knowing that God lives in every corner of their lives.    
I am sorry but this blog is all about me, the writer, but as it came time for me to write a blog before I leave, I was having the hardest time coming up with something to write about until a good friend of mine told me to write about myself and the summer I am going to have. My next blog is going to be about me too, just because God has blessed me so much already by the summer he planned for me. I knew before school even ended that I was called and wanted to go back to Camp Eden, so I committed myself for two back-to-back weeks of camp that would cost me $400 that I did not have. I will tell you that at the beginning I was positive that God would bring the money in, but as I got closer and closer to when I would leave for camp, I became a lot less bold in these thoughts of confidence. But God came through and he has grown my faith in the process. 
He has given random jobs and opportunities to get what was needed. I will tell you this though, there were times that I gave up on Him and tried my own way to get the money that was needed, but those never worked. I praise God for the gifts He has given me; I know that he has great things for me this summer. I still would crave your prayers, though, for I am every much a human and prone  to sin, and I will be away from my family for a very long time so they won’t be around to tell me that I am in a bad mood and stuff like that.




Project: There is no project for this one. My only prayer for you, my reader, and for myself is to walk with the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.


Follow-up: I must say that there were very few days that I got around to telling God thank you 24 times in a day. I did try and tell him thank you for all the things that came to mind when as I would be laying in bed, but  most times I would fall asleep before I reached 24. My best friend told me something that she had heard, “ What if tomorrow all you had was what you thanked God for today?” For me, I know that most tomorrows would not hold very much if that was the case. Thanks is something that I still need to work very hard on.