having v i s i o n

stay tuned for this exciting topic.....

(while you are waiting...think about YOUR vision)

staying balanced

Here we are up on the Challenge Course on Manatawny Mountain or Rabbit Hill whichever you best know it by. We were trying to stay balanced on a very wobbly platform. There were many things going on while we were balancing making it more and more difficult.

Today I need to stay balanced. This morning I could not find my pocket bible----so I felt like I was going to miss my reading....then, then I remembered that the Internet is a wonderful thing and I clicked over to www.biblegateway.com and completed my reading.

Now---I have some heavy duty meetings today in DC---things that have been weighing on my mind and it is time to confront them and deal with the consequences. Folks--this is not going to be fun. So my mind and mental state have been not as confident as I would like (life's like that sometimes).

But just like balancing on that big platform with all kinds of things going on---STOP & focus---I did, I read Proverbs and then I reread my reading....then I talked with God and thought about what I read and wow....I am in a much better place.
You can be too.

read His word!!!!!!!

splendor of a King

Wow!! That special, incredible time we call camp has ended for '08. AND what makes it special?? YOU---the camper!!!

Well....we miss you already, all of you campers, WE MISS YOU!!!

thank you for making 2008' Camping Sessions the

BEST

EVER!

Camper of the Week

The coveted award of Camper of the Week!!!

Funny how those who don't covet winning Camper of the Week seem to win....

Anyway this is the Girls Winner---I think you can see why she won....

see it in her eyes

the joy of the Lord

Fight the good fight

Consider it all joy, my brethren,

when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your

faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have its perfect result,

so that you may be perfect and complete,

lacking in nothing.

Book of James

I have been known to fight the fight just to fight. These are photos from last week @ camp during the tug-o-war. It is no joke, people line up to watch and cheer....you really don't know to much during the tug except to tug and pull and P-U-L-L !

and when it's over/done, you are spent. You have given what you have to give. The battle does make you stronger. The trials DO make you more faithful.

this is not our world, this is not our time. that's where the joy of the Lord is found.

the moment

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

I am heading to DC to find out who stole some cash deposits from not just one store last wkend, but also from three stores this AM. The evidence is coming out as to who may have done this. My knees are infected from the Tug-O-War last week @ camp and my forearms are bruised from bellyflopping not too mention the countless bruises up and down my chest and arms from being involved in the picture above. I had to forgo my Radiohead ticket for tonite as I have no clue how long I ill be in DC today.

So what does it all mean??? NOTHING! The moment pictured above is as close to real life as you may get---living for the moment, nothing is guaranteed, nothing is forever except the love of Jesus. Will you die to yourself and live for Him? what else do you REALLY have?

Take the moment---right now! Thank Him!!! Talk to Him---He listens, He loves and He is real, really real.

Go ahead and chase the wind.....chase it OR stop chasing the wind and stop dead in your tracks and get on your knees and praise Him; for He is good!

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Inter II 8/2-8/9

This week we will be coming to you LIVE from Cabin 5 in Boy's Town

Check us out @ http://ourcampweek.blogspot.com/

See YOU there!!!

Love,

Tate

Here we COME!!!!!!!

okay so a good friend of mine from camp invited me to be her friend on facebook and sure I get the blogs, but I haven't really been able to figure out facebook and myspace----they don't seem to do anything ( I will get it). So Jocyln invites me to be her friend, but wait---I don't even have a facebook page and so link after link and question after question and I am on facebook and lo and behold like a gazillion of my contacts are somehow told and invited to by my friend on facebook....facebook will have to wait a bit....tomorrow is camp and today is crunch time in preparation.

Need to finish a window display @ work
tidy up a few last minute things at work
rent a wet vac from Home Depot and suck stuff out of my streetside cleanout and then flood my basement to suck out the muck from the other day
pack
pack
mentally prepare campfire devos especially tomorrows!
get bandanas---can't seem to find my bag full
make sure Nathaniel is able to go to camp ( I am so last minute)
try to convince Tony's grandmother that Tony should go.....this is MAJOR last minute
figure out lgoistics to get everything-everyone to camp
go to REI---don't ask it's real last minute
try to find some christmas lights
ahhhh......camp manatawny

the only thing I will really and truly need to bring----forget everything else---if it comes it comes, if it doesn't make it, it doesn't so the only thing I really and truly need to bring to camp is my..........B I B L E
and God will take care of the rest---AMEN?