ring, ring

Camp is calling, calling you and everyone you know. It is time to fill camp with campers. The joyous sound of campers (and staff). There is a a small army assembled with a BIG GOD getting ready to call every Church of Christ within camp's reach and that army has one purpose- CAMPERS and MORE CAMPERS!

Those who have been involved with camp know what camp does and how camp works. Jesus is ready and we have called Him to be our general. He will lead and we will follow. Join the cause! Grab His word and come along as we grow camp to reaches only He can make possible.

To God be the glory forever and ever~ Amen!

God smiles at us by the minute

Realizing that God loves us for who we are is challenging

This is how we know what love is:
Jesus Christ laid down his life for us
the word of God

Realizing that a dandelion is a flower and not a weed
is challenging

still learning

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9

So, this has been my struggle for the past 6-8 weeks.
I've been boasting.
The word "proud" has entered my vocab.
I feel self-assured.
My humility has waned.
I haven't even noticed the moon lately.
My plate is full and I have been proud of how full it is and looks.

I love that verse---
a gift of God, not my doing, so I may not boast.

What's that other verse?
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Galatians 6:14

I have so much to still learn.

...and I guess this hit home the hardest- for as I have been proud and boasting
I have NOT had peace or rest or contentedness

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
Romans 8:6

I want life & peace
His grace provides it
thank you
amen

this is more then I could ever write.

Live such good lives among the pagans that,

though they accuse you of doing wrong,

they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

1 Peter 2:12

campcampcampcampcamp

I can hear the roar of the milk truck at FIVE A.M.--- it is here where I sin at Camp...this is where mean, negative thoughts coarse my mind...not with the campers, but with that truck and the trash truck and the bread truck rumbling through Boy's Town while I try to sleepsleepsleep.

I never forget how amazing Camp is...truly amazing...fascinating...wonderful beautiful.

but

then

you're not there

you my fellow staff and the wonderful beloved campers

w/o people it's NOT Camp

not even close

YOU

James....

The WORD of GOD: Book of James 5:5-6 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.

The "he" is us.

If we are called to "righteous", then we are called NOT to resist.

ohhhh Lord.....I want to resist.

I want to make what is wrong/right, I want to fight the injustice, but yet; "he does NOT resist you"

BUT Lord, seriously? Don't resist the inequities of the world, Lord please let me fight them! They anger me, hurt me, hurt others and yet.....do not resist?!?!?!?

Forgive me o'Lord.....for I resist more oft then I should.

I am saved by grace.

no messin' 'round.....the grace of Christ.

(( written while listening to E Smith "2:45 A.M." ))

everythingIown

after a day of work~school~play

This is what I have left.
my hat, my bible, music, chap stick, money and receipts

what did I leave behind today?

what did I do?

I, I, I,. I, I, ipod, ilove, ineed, ido

everything--- I,I,I,I,I,I

what about others

isn't that what music sings about, the bible talks about and what money is for??????

what have i learned...here....on this earth? love to love and give to give

no messing around here.....see everyone around you, love all, share, care, lovelovelovelove and when you are done- LOVE>>>>>>>> go

outofthe darkness--- in to the LIGHT

IT IS TIME

the time of darkness is over

this IS the time of light

the bulbs in the ground feel the warmth in the dark and dirty dirt caused by the light as they are coaxed out of that darkness to experience life---light.

not long after...they will BLOOM

color~beauty~life

THINGS THAT MEAN something

b ready

b awake

He is calling you.

wisdom & insight

I think a lot about confidence and motivation.

Yesterday I read Proverbs 4. I keep re-reading it for some reason....I guess there is just SO MUCH there and yet it is all so simple.

I do think that love is a motivator. Good love, the kind of love that refreshes one's soul. The love of loving others and knowing we are loved.

I think that is the hard part....the knowing we are loved part.

If God, is our Father then we need to know how strong His love is.
Truly how strong it is.

Nothing can get in the way of the love of God for His children......nothing.

So let's go forth today resting in the knowledge that we are loved by our Father and there is nothing we can do that will change that.

Staff Shirt

Staff shirt time again!

.....oh no!

Really it means; camp is around the corner should He bless us again!

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there's this "guy" on facebook....

This guy I knew, well didn't know him enough to have his cell...but I could get it easily enough. I liked him. He was a pretty cool guy and I know he believed in God. Now this guy wasn't perfect, well really how would I know if he was perfect, but no one is, are they? Well, this guy I know, he believed in God and followed Him the best he could.

Well....he passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly...but I was his friend on FB.
So he's kinda still there, but he isn't....except I really thinks he's there, I do.....you know living eternally...yeah I know, it can sound corny, but it isn't.

So to my friend on FB....you know who you are....one day we'll catch up.

when God calls....

I'd like to think I would not have denied knowing Jesus, but I know my heart.

God does call us....do we answer or do we deny Him like Peter?

God is calling.

We need to answer.

If we light a lamp, it is for light and we let the light shine.

When God calls and He does call, we need to answer.

Answers need to be like actions.
God is calling, do not deny Him. Light the lamp. Put it on a stand. Let it shine brightly.
Do not be ashamed of light. For it is good. Light is good. God is good.

What can man do to me? NOTHING.

The phone rings incessantly. We need to answer.
Answer with our very life for it is by that that we will gain life.

From the guidebook of life; the Holy Bible.
Luke 22
Luke 8
Psalm 56
Psalm 23


eventually....Peter answered the phone.

grasping the truth

When you find the truth, you must hold on to it at all costs

We live our lives, for what?
Education?
Family?
Money?
Pleasure?
In this world we live to live
And as we live we are given opportunities to see
What do we do with the truth when we find/see it?
Acceptance of truth is easy
Application is what those that accept the truth are called to do

What and how are you applying the truth?
Have you found the truth?
And more importantly are YOU looking for the truth?

I do not accept the things of this world as truth
I am called by the truth which is God to be His
I have accepted Him
AND
I am following
PSALM 23
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.

Truth- what is "wrong" with that bible verse above?
He "restores" my soul! Wow! He restores my soul....pure beauty!
He leads me in paths of "righteousness"....is there anything better?
Why? "for His name's sake???? Not for me, not for the Philadelphia Eagles or the Dallas Cowboys, not for republicans or democrats, not for LOST or Jersey Shore, but for Him!

Him is God and His Son; Jesus did roam the earth....right? You can believe He existed...right? And if so I challenge you to seek the TRUTH.

I have found the truth and will continue to "grasp" it for the time I am granted and for this reason-
Psalm 23 continued:

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all of my days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

What more could you want, really?

so far away, and yet....

the world is closing in.

it seems to have it's talons on me and yet...

so far away, but not.

on the last night of any camp week I always like to think about bringing the heart of camp into the world. the heart being Jesus and yet...

the world is where I am and live and yet...

I think back to "camp life", the life where NOTHING else seems to matter, but Jesus.

and then I am back in the world struggling to bring that love, that beauty of simplicity know as Camp Manatawny into my daily world and it never seems to work.

what is it about camp manatawny? what is it that makes it work?

isn't it God?

if we bring Him into the world

then the world is simply more beautiful

more loving

more giving

more understanding

more tolerable

i want to live forever, in a place such as this and therefor I will proclaim the name of Christ above all other names for without Him....I truly am the world. And with Him I am His.

and that makes it alright.