Back "Home"

This week I had the awesome opportunity to go back to Quaker Lake...the one place in the world that can calm any of my fears and pull me into a place where I feel the most myself. It's crazy to think of how the Lord can transform me in a simple relocation. It doesn't at all discount myself at home but it does speak to what a wonderfully amazing place camp is and how it can grow and transform those that enter. I have loved this place over and over, from camper to staff and now to volunteer. The presence of God is in that place and the power of Christ that I felt while there soothes my soul and gives me hope for the future and in what the Lord has for me.

I couldn't express fully in any words the amazing things that happened at camp and I can't account for lives saved or hearts healed for that is the Father's place. Yet, I can account for what was transforming for me and how I felt the presence of Christ as I stood up before campers and professed the love of Christ. I couldn't recount the exact words or stories I told yet I can tell you that the Lord used me to speak into lives and I have never before felt like God was using me as such a vessel. Yes, I have spoken words of Christ before yet this experience topped the cake. Am I normally quiet, reserved and shy...yes but there I am more outgoing, loving and talkative...I really transformed into the "pastor" that the Lord called me to be or as one of the campers put it "Miss Preacher Lady"...Continually I give credit to the Lord for his Almighty hand in each and every word I spoke and lesson I translated...for those were his children, his kingdom and his words that he wanted to speak to them.

Now my prayer becomes that Christ would stretch those words to comfort them when they are at home and that they would seek out the "Word" in love. For me I pray that Christ continues his great work in my life and continually transforms me into the person he wants me to be, if that is speaking before people or simply walking in obedience and truth each day then I pray that would be a solid foundation in my life.