7/20/15
You don't have to have it all together. It's okay to be a mess and show it. Let God work in you, cleaning your insides.
7/22/15
God waited to make me a crew chief until now for a reason. He wanted me to be ready.
7/26/15
God wanted me with these two weekers for a reason. He wants me to teach them, and wants them to teach and challenge me. Go will speak through me to these kids. I may be the planter. I may be the one that harvests.
These two weeks will be memorable. Go will work in and through me.
7/30/15
"I seek the work of your hands."
8/1/15
"Just take the first step."
8/3/15
"The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; He restores my should. He leads me in right paths for his names sake." Psalm 23:1-3
Do you see yourself as a new creation in God?
Are you paying more attention to how you look, or what is going on on the inside?
8/4/15
What's next will be very different.
8/9/15
Can you see God when you are in crisis?
8/21/15
Out of his anguish, he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53:11
What I noticed through all of my journal entries this summer was that I kept writing about how God was still working on me, and that even when I felt like a complete mess, it was okay. After all, God had to be doing something in and through me when I was a mess.
Then I noticed that I also kept writing that God had planned to have me wait until the last couple of weeks of camp to be a crew chief for a reason, that that he had had a plan for me since before I was even born.
From there, I wrote about taking the first step forward and the fact that God wanted the work of my hands. I also got to thinking about how before this past summer at SpringHill, I didn't think so much about what was going on internally and what God was telling me.
What I've come to realize is that God wanted me back at SpringHill this past summer for a reason. He wanted to challenge me and show me a hint of some of the skills He had given me. I still remember hearing God tell me that whatever was next was going to be very different. The thing about thinking about hearing God say that to me, I now am beginning to understand why what was next for me was so different. Going from camp to working for an after school programing to cooking for a bunch of people in an assisted living facility has been a big change. Cooking at an assisted living facility had been so different, yet very rewarding. God has challenged me in this new position, and has continued teaching me.
Getting to know the residents I work with five days a week has been so rewarding, especially when I've been able to get to know a resident and solve a problem or help that resident in some way. There have been the rough days at work, but the great thing about those rough days is that I've been able to trust God to get me through those days and see Him at work in me so that these residents can see him through me.
