soaking up freedom

I think that Jesus wants me to waste my life on Him. My talents, my money, my intelligence, my memory, my breath, my time, my every moment, my everything. All of it will ‘go to waste’ if I use it for His kingdom instead of for this world or for myself.

Just like the woman who wasted all of her costly perfume on Jesus, I want to waste all of the costly things that I have on Him. That’s simply all He asks.

So, teen session just ended. It was crazy. I probably experienced more anger and fear, and hope and excitement this week than ever before in my life. It was pretty great. I had some girls that were a major struggle to even get along with, and then some that opened up to me and prayed with me; both sets changed my life.

Please take the time to watch this video:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1481437068982&ref=mf

This girl was in my cabin, and she was really awesome.

I am in a season of learning humility right now. The Lord is really showing me how supreme He is, and how little I am. Yeah, I’d say I’m a pretty cool person, and I have a lot to offer to this world, but none of it is to my credit. If it weren’t for Jesus I don’t want to know where I’d be.

I’ve been trying really hard to uncover what God’s master plan is for my life; exactly what He wants me to study in school, where to spend my summers and spring breaks, what to do after college, and where I am to live. I’m coming to the realization that none of that matters. The Lord led hundreds of people into places that they knew nothing of; their only hope was to trust in Him. That sounds really scary, but by His grace that’s exactly what I want to do. I don’t believe that I need a master plan for anything. The goal of each of the rest of my days (and thanks to Kaili for this one) is to never go to bed knowing as little about God as I do now.

Third Session kids arrive today, ages 11-13. Prayers for their hearts to be transformed by Jesus this week. :)

coming home August 9th, shoutout to my froomies who I can’t wait to live with!!!!!!!!!!

So, Session 1 kids left yesterday. Very bittersweet. This is a picture of our girls. I could sit here for an hour and tell you my favorite things about each one of them, and how much I love them. We had a really great group of girls. On the very first night, and every night after that, Arianna (the girl hugging my neck) told me that Jennifer and I were the best counselors in the world. It was incredible how quickly these little girls loved us. Some of them were more hesitant; I could tell that they weren’t used to such open, free love as they received from Camp Shiloh this week.

I’ll throw out some of my highlights of the week:

• Leslie (the little Mexican girl in the front row) passing gas and peeing on herself in the pool dressing room just for attention
• Amber being deathly afraid to get into her bed because of a spider until I prayed God’s protection over her
• Each of the girls begging to read from the Bible and pray with the cabin at night
• Bible class, where afterward the kids were able to tell exactly what they learned! (We’re teaching all about David, and how his identity was found in God)
• Celebration time, which is Worship with no music, just lots of shouting, clapping, and stomping
• Our cabin’s night swim, because of their awesome behavior

So now I’m chilling at camp with about half of the counselors, while the other half went into the city for the weekend. It’s an absolutely glorious day. The Lord will never stop showing me new reasons to praise Him.