It's been exactly seven days since I last posted. Considering my intention was to post AT LEAST twice a week, preferably more, I'd say I need to get back on it. And so I've decided.
It's not for lack of material to post about; I've had multiple times in the past week that I've intended to write a post. It just seems that every time I think of the blog I decide to put it off until later, and then I forget about it until some other time, usually at work when there's nothing I can do about it. I allow myself to get distracted, and that's something I simply can't do if I'm going to use this as a way to keep myself accountable as well as a method of getting my thoughts and viewpoints into the world. Because they're just that important; they deserve to be there, right?
Anywho, I almost put this post off till tomorrow, which would have meant that it most likely wouldn't get done. But I didn't, and I'm glad of that. I just finished up my first week of camp as a counselor, and I have to say it was awesome. I came into the job looking at it as nothing more than a way to pay the rent and get a little bit of extra money. That was all I was looking for, and to be honest I applied for this job because I had a connection and my buddy said I should be able to get it. Then I went to the first day of staff training and found out that I'd be working with some pretty cool people. I finished the training week pretty happy with how I figured the job would be, but still more happy with the simple fact that I had a job (I had been looking for one for a while, and had some that looked pretty promising just completely fall through. Looking at it now, all I can say is God had a plan for it and I'm excited to see how he continues to work it out.). Then the first day of camp came, and it was great. I mean, I'm seriously getting paid to play with kids all day? And in the first day I moved from 25 hours a week to 40, so more pay and more time to hang out with the other counselors and the kids. There have been a few frustrating moments, but overall I continue to thoroughly enjoy the job. Those frustrating moments also provide fodder for prayer, which is never a bad thing. I also have an awesome opportunity to be a positive influence and a witness to the kids as well as the other counselors, which is super duper fantastic. That's more fodder for prayer too, so this job in general is just food for prayer and a mission field of over a hundred people total. Awesomeness! Thank you God for both providing this job and, in hindsight, for closing the doors on the others. I prayed He would provide a job for me this summer, and he did more than that. He provided a wealth of opportunity as well. He was faithful to answer my prayer, and He gave me a large mission field. And He went beyond the best that I could imagine. As the song says, how great, how great is our God.
1 Corinthians 1:9
9 nGod is faithful, by whom you were called into the ofellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 8:28
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together hfor good,1 for ithose who are called according to his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:15
15 For cit is all for your sake, so that as dgrace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, eto the glory of God.
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