Week 10 has come and past. Summer camping at SharpTop Cove is over until next June. This session, the third and final, comes to a bittersweet end for me. I am excited about moving on from summer camping, to get back to a normal schedule and get some much needed rest. However, I am sad to say goodbye to some good friends. Both interns, whom some of which I've been with for 51 weeks and others 10. I am also really sad to say goodbye to the assigned team here for session 3.
One thing about YoungLife camping that is great, but makes it so difficult, is the intense relationships created in a short period of time. Most of these people I have spent 16 hours a day with for 3 weeks with. Serving next to and experiencing the joys of life with. And as of 10AM tomorrow morning, they will be gone. Surely some of our paths with cross again. Others, it is realistic to say, they won't. Regardless, this has been a great time of getting to know people and really sifting through and throwing aside facades and false identities.
As I said in my last post, I'll be visiting home and then coming back to STC. However, it certainly will not be the same without these great friends I've met.
Hasta la vista.
August 7, 2011
August 4, 2011
Future Plans...
My future plans are that I have no future plans. Okay, well that isn't entirely true, but in a sense yes, it is.
It is hard to believe but Saturday marks the end of the summer camping season here at SharpTop. It signals that roughly 4,000 high-school students have come and gone. And a large percentage of them have had their lives changed forever. What that also signals, is the end of my year-long internship here. Looking back now, it feels like a whirlwind. Nevertheless, 52 weeks have come and 52 weeks have gone.
As I look forward I've realized that I am not very good when it comes to the unknown. I always want to know what is next and how that transition will look. Recently, I have been resting in the fact that I don't know. That I can not control this one, and that I need to trust God. So that is what I am doing.
I have been asked to stay here at SharpTop and help out for a little while. I'll be heading home for a week but coming right back down and working through September. I am excited for that time and have another 6 weeks to try and figure things out. I do not know what is next; long term, but I have been presented this opportunity and I'm going to take it.
Adios.
It is hard to believe but Saturday marks the end of the summer camping season here at SharpTop. It signals that roughly 4,000 high-school students have come and gone. And a large percentage of them have had their lives changed forever. What that also signals, is the end of my year-long internship here. Looking back now, it feels like a whirlwind. Nevertheless, 52 weeks have come and 52 weeks have gone.
As I look forward I've realized that I am not very good when it comes to the unknown. I always want to know what is next and how that transition will look. Recently, I have been resting in the fact that I don't know. That I can not control this one, and that I need to trust God. So that is what I am doing.
I have been asked to stay here at SharpTop and help out for a little while. I'll be heading home for a week but coming right back down and working through September. I am excited for that time and have another 6 weeks to try and figure things out. I do not know what is next; long term, but I have been presented this opportunity and I'm going to take it.
Adios.
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