Vacation

We are finishing up our one week summer camp and my co-teacher asked them to pretend that the students were taking a trip. Today she asked them to write a letter home. One of the students letters went like this:

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am in the toilet. It is hot in here. I feel sick. I miss you. Love.

Ah yes, his trip anywhere in the world was too the toilet. What a vacation.

Learning to Worship

We decided to study the book of Job in International Fellowship- simply because I had a series on my Ipod about the book.

Today was the first chapter of Job. How Job's responded to suffering, how God was proud of His son. I suppose when I think of Job- I think of my first "grown-up" church services- how I didn't understand a word, but my picture was of a man who had bad things happen and was happily praising anyway. I thought that it was a picture of happiness- when in reality it is a picture of worship. A man who was broken, hurting and instead of asking why, he said "I will choose to BLESS the Lord."

The challenge is how I respond. I am faced with things daily- minor things that I tend to make bigger. Instead of choosing to bless God, I choose to question, to worry, to forget that I am not in control and He is. It is followed by me trying to take control only to become more broken and frustrated than I was originally.

I find I am learning that worship involves my life- my whole life- not just the parts I feel competent in. I may never and probably will never experience the disasters that Job faced- but maybe if I laid down every part of my life- I can worship as a first reaction in difficult times.

Incredible things

I have to admit I do not know where to begin about the past 2 weeks. So many incredible and not so incredible things have happened.

My family was here for a week and a half- something that was exciting for me and for them. We experienced a lot of interesting things such as snake for dinner, a tour guide who tried to rip us off, and a lost camera that we managed to get back the night before they left.

All in all, I have had a great 2 weeks what with my family being here and situations being taken cared of. So many things have been questioned, confirmed and tabled in my life over the past 2 weeks.

One very big incredible thing that happened was a decision that was made by my former roommate Rita. We have been praying that she would become a believer for many months now and the day she left- she went to another teacher saying she was ready to make the jump. I suppose nothing else matters... the little things that irrated me while I was on vacation pale in comparison to knowing that I may never see Rita again on earth- but celebrating our Father together in heaven makes everything seem a bit brighter.