UE CAMP

I love Psalm 46:10; "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." I love the first part, and thats what Duff told us when the first full day of UE camp started, "Be still and know that I am God".....he also told us to "remember to breathe throughout the week........it was an amazing week!!!

UE camp was amazing and im so glad that i could be a part of the camp team this year.....i was leaving for the camp on sunday, cuz im a loser and had to work a full day on saturday....anyways, i was thinking to myslef "man i hate doing skits in front of people!" well i got through the first skit on Monday, the rest were a breeze...lol........i was in all 4 and i wasnt expecting to be in all 4..........but i really and truly enjoyed doing them.........

Tim the speaker did a great job too reaching out to the middle schoolers.......

one thing i loved about being on camp team was every night after the sessions we as a team would go up to Judah and just talked about some serious stuff.......i loved those nights.........

Wednesday night Holmesy came up to Judah and did some worship songs for the camp team and i kind if left during a song and had to go out and just really pray about some sutff that was happening........then as i was walking back to Judah Ben saw me walking and came up to me asked if everything was alright and i said kind of and then i said not really and started to cry and he just gave me a hug and asked me if i wanted to talk and i was like sure......so we walked up to the merry-go-round thing and i just told him what was going on and then he prayed for me.......it was just an awesome experince.........

Thursday night about midnight or so we had communion out by the pond, where Ben Murray, yes thats Gina's brother, played some songs for the camp team and Miranda and Duff washed our feet and then we went up to a table type thing and got bread and juice and took communion.......it was a great experience........I have never prayed that much in an entire week and now i'm gonna start to pray more often, cuz the power of prayer goes a long way, i found that out a few times during the week..........

A close friend of mine was at UE and we're like sisters and everything......well the one night she went up to the front and wrote a few things on note cards that she was dealing with and the big sister that i am, i went up to her after the session and prayed for her and we both started to cry, it was just an awesome experience..........

I will never forgot this week at UE.......In the beginning of the week Duff had plans for every night and decided that God was speaking to him about doing something totally different and the one night he was reading out of the Bible and came to a part about breathing.....and the goal for us as a camp team was to "Remember to Breathe"..........i love that............

later gators!!!!

the song of the week was "How Great is Our God" by Chris Tomlin-----awesome song!!
The splendor of a King, clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice
All the earth rejoice

He wraps himself in Light, and darkness tries to hide
And trembles at His voice
Trembles at His voice

How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see How great,
how great is our God

Age to age He stands
And time is in His hands
Beginning and the end
Beginning and the end

The Godhead Three in One
Father Spirit Son
The Lion and the Lamb
The Lion and the Lamb

Name above all names
Worthy of all praise
My heart will sing
How great is our God

How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, how great is our God

Chapter from Ragamuffin Gospel

I've been slacking in my reading lately and im trying to get back into it and its been hard because i always say to myself, I dont feel like reading i c9ould be doing something better." but seriously i need to get back into my reading.......so i finally read last night and here are some points from the book.........

--The ragamuffin Christ is roughly handled, pushed aroun, scourged and spat upon, murdered and buried among His own ilk. I had no idea what ilk meant so i went to dictionary.com to check it out and it didnt clear any of that up, so i decided to forget about it...lol

--"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21.....Every form of sin and its consequences, broken relationships, hatred, pride, jealousy, cancer, and on and on were experienced and carried by "a thing despised and rejected by men" (Isaiah 53:3) who knew the nadir of an agony such as no one has ever dreamed....there were more in the list above but i just typed the ones that have or had applied to my own life.....broken relationships with my dad and i are progressing which is awesome....i've been praying about it and this morning before the service in big church to tell me that he cant make it to the senior luncheon cuz he has to work and he thanked me for asking him and said love ya and i said it back, its been a long time since i said that to my dad.....and wow did it feel great......

--Jesus is God.....no question on that, lol...

-- What shall we say to such an out pouring of love? How shall we respond?
--- The love of Christ and His gospel of grace calls for a personal, free, and unconventional decision.

-- It is Christ offering the opportunity of a lifetime: "I, the Light, have come into the world, so that whoever believes in me need not stay in the dark anymore." John 12:46.......i like that passage a lot.....i just love how it says that He came into the world so that we wont have to be in the dark, but there are times where i do feel that way and lately i have, but He is here to give us light......which is awesome..........

-- We cannot will ourselves to accept grace. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision.

more tomorrow night cuz my eyes are getting heavy, lol...............well good night all.......
leave me something, please, lol