Camp

Hello Again! I am so very sorry it has taken me this long to blog again. Well It is July. Wow. The summer is already almost half over. I went to bible camp last week and I just wanted to share some thoughts on it.

The program that I did was called CCC (Camping Canoe Challenge) It was definitely not easy and I canoed and camped lots. The first night we were there, we had our own little campfire and we did Yay Gods (Saying Yay God for what we are thankful for) and we got burden rocks. I'm thinking Wow...This is lame and I am not going to learn anything from carrying a little rock around with me all week. But, as we reflected about how the experience related to real burdens in our lives, it totally connected for me. It was so annoying and frustrating having to remember the stupid rock and to figure out how to hold/carry it. At the end of the week, we wrote some burdens on the rocks and set them at the cross. It felt so good to let God take my real burden and to just forget about that stupid rock.
 It was also super cool to reflect on this after the mime that the camp does each week. It is the story of Jesus, but it has some great music to it and super cool scenes. There is one scene that really resonated with me: Satan and the demons grab Humanity and are trying to nail him to the cross. Jesus pushes them all off and takes the sin out of Humanity's hands. Jesus really took our place on the cross. Jesus is the son of God for goodness sake! He can have anything he wants and he loves us so much that he lets himself be beaten and murdered with people laughing and spitting at him. He went to hell for three days so we don't have to. He saved us.
The most powerful moment of the whole mime was so simple. There were cardboard signs with words like LUST and GREED and SIN on them. At the end, Jesus takes the sin from us and just rips it in half. The crowd started cheering. Humanity starts bowing to him and Jesus picks him up off the ground and hugs him. Jesus was sent down to earth so the we could be with God. He doesn't want us to be separated and I don't want to either. Can you imagine not having the promise of eternal life? I have this verse memorized: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of god is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6: 23

Thanks for reading!
God made you special and He loves you very much,
Bekah