That camp high...

It summer which means its time for camp!!! Took an awesome group of kids to camp this past week. Still trying to catch up on my sleep, not sure that catching up will ever happen. The camp theme-Shipwreck Island: Where God Provides. We looked at how God provides everything we need: God provides forgiveness, God provides a call, and God provides enough. The kids studied the life of Paul as they studies these things this week....I think we could all learn a thing or two from him about how God Provides. The week was great and I got to see kids witnessing to other kids and burdened by a friend's lostness and also just grow closer to God. Just a great week!

I can't help but think when I come back home after a great week at camp about that camp high you get. You know, where you are on fire for God and ready to do anything for him. I remember getting it after camp in high school. I don't think much has changed when you are an adult coming home from taking kids to camp. Well, except for the need for more sleep. 

As adults I think sometimes we go thinking that camp is going to be for the kids, we are just going to make sure they are safe and taken care of, minister to them and guide them. However, a lot of the time I think that adults can get just as much out of it as the kids can. Sometimes adults have to be reminded of the "basic" thing about of God. Being reminded that he gives us a forgiveness that allows for eternal life, but also a daily forgiveness for we inevitably mess up. What about a calling...I think sometimes adult and parents get so wrapped up in being a parent that they may forget their calling, what special gift or ability they have been given. I told the kids that God puts a calling on all of us, who have chosen to trust and believe in Him, that is to tell others about him. The last God provides enough...this I think is the hardest to remember. When times are tough and your not sure what is going to happen next...remembering that God provides enough is so important. I know that these are things I had to be reminded of....

God will provide...it may not be what we want and it may be how we want it..but I'll take my chances trusting the Lord, his plans always seem better and turn out better than mine in the end. 

Thought I would leave you with a two pictures of the week:

The crew pre-OMC.

My awesome adult crew....after some OMC fun!!

 

(mis)Adventures in Cooking…

So I tried something tonight that I don’t normally do…I cooked. Now if you give me a cake recipe, a cookie recipe, or some type of baking I love it!!! But I have decided to start cooking more in the hopes of saving money and also because I have access to tons of recipes but just never cooked them. Also because when cooking for one you end up with a lot of leftovers and it’s just not as much fun not getting to share.  Anyway so I searched for a recipe last night and found a couple that looked good.

Then off to the store I went this in and of itself was interesting…well after roaming the store to find everything and having to do a Google search on my Phone to learn what a certain ingredient was I headed home.

So tonight I decided to cook one of my new recipes…Baked Ziti with Turkey Sausage! As I started to gather my ingredients and realized I was short one...so then after a quick trip to WinnDixie I was set.

After chopping and mixing and getting things ready to cook...I put all the required ingredients into the pot…and quickly realized that the pot was a little too small….the recipe told me to stir often…..that was a problem.

Anywhoo…once I got everything mixed together and into the pan it went and into the oven……and 20 minutes later….

I started the cooking at 6:30 and finished cooking at 8:30…it tasted really good J Hopefully I can cut my cooking time in half next time…next recipe Mexican Style Brown Rice…stay tuned for the results…

I have a secret...

Ok…so I have a secret…I am a big history nerd. Now when I say this I don’t mean I like little pieces of history here and there no I really enjoy the stuff. I love it when I randomly come upon the history documentaries. I live in New Orleans and the one thing I want to do before I leave is go to the WWII museum. I love visiting plantation homes, for Halloween one year I so want to dress like a Southern Belle from Plantation days.  I also love to read but even the trend of history even extends to the book I read, most of the books I have are historical fiction.  I would love to live in a really old house one day….squeaking boards, claw-foot tub, wrap-around porch…all that stuff. So needless to say...I am a nerd and I love history…but it is something that not many people know.

Having shared the above info it should be as no surprise that in I am really enjoying my Baptist Heritage class this semester,   learning about our origins and the stories behind the different churches and beliefs that helped to start the Southern Baptist.  Well, today in our class we were discussing “Baptist Expansion” our professor pulls out a book that was the Philadelphia Confession of Faith from 1742, which was like so cool to me to see this book from so long ago. However, it got me thinking…my mind tends to wonder. What legacy are we leaving behind? How are people going to view us 100,200,300, 400 years from now? What books are professors going to be pulling out and show students during class?

My hope for those of us who are believers we have left a legacy. A legacy that says we were passionate follower of Christ and that when people looked at our lives they can say that was someone who lived a life dedicated to Christ and how he called believers to live. Not only that we lived a life that honored Christ, but that we shared Christ whenever we had the chance. So what legacy are you leaving?