I am not shy to admit that there is so much in life that I need to learn....SO MUCH. Truth is for everyone there is so much that we need to learn. We will never know it all...although there have been campers of mine who have thought so and there will always be something thing we just do not know...
Okay I am sure you get the point. Even though I know I do not know everything and even though I ask for advice, there are so many times that I do not here the things that I want to here. Things that I want to be able to react a certain, but when I hear another view that is not wrong...but not what I want to hear.
Well if you have never been in that situation then I will gladly tell you a story of mine. I am working at a camp this summer that is a great camp for many different reasons. There are somethings that I wish would change and one of those things is how they incorporate God into the different stuff that go on here at camp. The first couple of weeks I just wasn't seeing it... I was missing the reason that we say we are at camp. After people started to get into the swing things I noticed some things were changing and I was able to incorporate the Message of Jesus into more things and it was just great!! Then we have a more serious night were we get to talk to our campers about Salvation and their relationship with God. Literally this is a day that I wait for!! I just cannot wait for this moment when I get to have a serious conversation with my girls about out Father.
Sometimes the conversation can last a little long, which is a good thing. A very good thing, except some of the girls do not get a chance to have this conversation on this night. Usually it is the next day, but not that night. Well that night our leader came to us and told us from now on we were going to have 15 minutes with each girl so that every girl would have a chance to talk.
When I heard this I was furious. Like beyond words...the only night that I look for you telling me I am limited on the amount of time that I can spend with them... GET OVER IT. So I ended up talking to my pastor and I told him how angry that made me and how when I was finally finding purpose in my job it was being limited, like they were really showing what was important to them. He told me that it may seem that way, but I needed to do what the camp said. That I was trying so hard to make this job work and when I finally found something to be excited about it it was stripped away. He then told me to remember the one who died for our Salvation, the one that I want to talk to the girls about so badly created time. That time is really in His hands. If I really hand that time over to Him and trust Him with it He can do far more than I could imagine.
When I heard this information I can guarantee you that I was not happy. That was not that thing that I wanted to hear at that moment. He could have told me to quite my job and I would have been okay with that. To talk to my leader and tell her that I did not agree with her or to bluntly just not listen to her and just do what I think is best. But no, he told me exactly what I didn't want to hear. After that conversation I had a lot to think about, even though that was not what I wanted to hear...it was true. God is that Author of time...like i sing about that All the time and now I could go in believing I only had 15 minutes or I could go in believing God had a whole 15 minutes....
So the Day has come and it is up to me what to do with it. I had been praying for this day since I had that conversation with my pastor...
There was one girl in my room who really didn't want to talk to me,like she really really didn't want to. And after we got back from the Message that I didn't even hear I was praying so hard she wanted to go first! Like she didn't even think twice about it. She came in talked...left..second girl...third girl...fourth...then fifth. This was the most powerful session that I ever had.. The girls spilled out their hearts and the Lord gave me all the right things to say and none of them went over 15 minutes. NONE...and I didn't look at my watch not one time during any of there conversations, when it was over.. All I could do was enter into a time of praise for how awesome my Father is...
When you give Him the time, the problem, the whatever its amazing to watch Him work
That is such a kick awesome story, Chaarity! I feel like this is the Brazil split all over again, except that we've gone in twenty-five different directions rather than two, and this is the part where we reconnect: in sharing stories of how God is working powerfully in our lives.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, I looked at the quote in your title bar and recognized it as being from Hebrews 11. At first I wondered why you said "author unknown," because you know where it's from, but then I realized that we don't know the author of the book of Hebrews... I had a fun nerd realization moment.
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Chaarity!!!
ReplyDeleteI am soooo glad to hear that you're learning to trust in God in every circumstance, especially those in which we don't feel like!
And I love the quote in your title. Now the name of your blog makes sense to me. And I just LOVE it.
Love you so much!
We gotta talk soon!