Camp

Yesterday I drove back from Upper Peninsula Bible Camp and today I drove home from Camp Higher Ground. I adore camp, but mainly just those two. Camp is a place where the heart thrives and the soul flourishes. You learn so much about how to interact with all different kinds of people and the things God sets on your heart to learn.

I feel camp is a place where everyone can feel loved and included. Where all different types of people can be friends; the most good looking jock can be friends with the complete nerd. I love it because i feel like it is a reflection of what heaven will be like. It's a place where someone can be exactly who they were made to be and be loved unconditionally; a place of no judgments, only love.

But why is it that so often camp stays at camp? Let's make camp the reality. It takes people willing to deny themselves and take up their cross daily. I feel like this is to be my challenge: to create harmony wherever i go and to encourage one another to be the best that they can be by loving unconditionally. I want to be different from this world.

As I go back to Calvin, I know what I will be facing, I want to be a light in the darkness there. I know I need to be stronger than ever, stronger than even before. I want people to feel loved and valued wherever I go. There are some things I need to change and work through since last year and I can only do this through Agape love of Christ. Lord, pour out your love so that i may pour out into the lives of others. Amen