Wow, I can't believe it is here already. Today is the first day of a three-day camp for our Wyldlife kids, middle schoolers in grades 6-8th. And what am I doing you ask? Hole-punching nametags.
We have had 10 kids sign up in the last two days bringing our total for the weekend to nearly 60 kids! WOW! And I think it is just hitting me that we have 60 kids or so at Wyldlife each week and we have nearly 60 kids coming to camp...that's AMAZING. That's more kids than I have EVER taken to camp before and they are all under the age of 14 :)
And we run the camp! With some help from a few friends who flew in from the States to lead the programs/activities, music and the camp speaker. But still...it's impressive what God is doing here through Wyldlife. And I'm so excited to experience my first camp!
But I am also exhausted, dealing with my seemingly never-ending stomach issues (which pre-dated coming here), and a little overwhelmed. But can I just tell you two cool things that God has done for me this week:
(1) I had a bad evening. It happens, it's life. But I really didn't want to have a bad evening the night before camp. And as I was sitting on a bench waiting for my bus and yelling at God, telling Him that I was tired of my stomach hurting, tired of getting to the bus stop just in time to MISS the bus, tired of catcalls on the streets and being nervous walking home/being on the bus at night (I AM being safe!), and just plain TIRED thinking of all I had left to do tonite.... and guess what God did? A friend called me right then from the language school looking for another friend, but in the midst of our conversation he shared how he had had the WORST day. A test went bad so he skipped the rest of his classes went home and took a long nap then contemplated packing up and leaving the country without telling anyone because learning Spanish is just too hard.
WHEW! Thanks God. Thanks for reminding me I'm not alone. Thanks for reminding me my day could be worse. Thanks for IMMEDIATELY answering my cry out to You---even in the midst of me yelling at You. Thanks for being faithful beyond belief. I love you for that God!
(2) This song. I don't know why but I always seem to have to lead our powerpoint for chapel (which is at language school twice a week) the day after Club. And I'm always up at 11/12 p.m. typing up the song lyrics because there is literally no other time to do it. This week I typed up the lyrics to the song below almost falling asleep, thinking, "Shannon...she loves her hymns!" Shannon leads worship for the group that I do PPT for (we have four groups that rotate doing music for chapel).
And then in chapel, I heard the song. And I cried the entire way through it. This song is AMAZING, there just are no words. Now the music to this version of the song isn't as good as when we sang it in chapel, but you get the idea. I encourage you to listen to it in a quiet place and meditate on the lyrics. They are simply beautiful and TRUTH just pours out of them. This is my prayer for this weekend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRK2gu-KQQ&feature=related
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