Venturing Out
Hi blog readers! This, like John, is also my first post for the CwM blog and even writing this makes me remember camp, and the special place it has in my heart!
Many of these other posts have been about where we as camp staff see God. I’m going to take this from a bit of a different perspective: I tend to feel God when I need to find Him the most. Let me explain this a little more…
In a matter of days…(DAYS!!!)…I will be off to Ireland for a 4 month volunteer term, plus a couple months of travel afterwards. I am going to work with an organization that does respite care for adults and children with disabilities. It’s an exciting prospect—adventure, independence, the unknown—but it is starting to mean something different for me as my days in Manitoba dwindle away. I am going to be alone for 6 months. I won’t have my friends and family or the things that make me feel comfortable or safe. And although that fact is starting to scare me, it's also starting to force me to dig a little deeper to search for God, and is pushing me to put more trust in Him than I have ever had to before.
It’s during times like this that I have to rely on God. I have to put my trust in Him because when everything else falls away, He’s who I’ve got. He’s my “person.” As I am preparing to venture out into the unknown, I am comforted by the fact that God is always going to be with me. Regardless of the changes that happen around me, God remains a constant. When I really need God is when I look the hardest to find Him.
I want to encourage all of you to look out for God. Sometimes, if you’re like me, it’s when you need Him the most that you can feel Him the most: when you are getting ready to go back to school after a great week of camp and feeling like the people at school just won’t understand, or you’re moving to a new place, or you family is having troubles. It’s during times like this that we need a constant, and it’s exciting to remember that God is that constant—both in our ordinaries and in those times we are venturing out into the unknown.
So here’s to adventures and new experiences…and to looking for God in these things!
Kate McIntyre--SLT Director 2009
Many of these other posts have been about where we as camp staff see God. I’m going to take this from a bit of a different perspective: I tend to feel God when I need to find Him the most. Let me explain this a little more…
In a matter of days…(DAYS!!!)…I will be off to Ireland for a 4 month volunteer term, plus a couple months of travel afterwards. I am going to work with an organization that does respite care for adults and children with disabilities. It’s an exciting prospect—adventure, independence, the unknown—but it is starting to mean something different for me as my days in Manitoba dwindle away. I am going to be alone for 6 months. I won’t have my friends and family or the things that make me feel comfortable or safe. And although that fact is starting to scare me, it's also starting to force me to dig a little deeper to search for God, and is pushing me to put more trust in Him than I have ever had to before.
It’s during times like this that I have to rely on God. I have to put my trust in Him because when everything else falls away, He’s who I’ve got. He’s my “person.” As I am preparing to venture out into the unknown, I am comforted by the fact that God is always going to be with me. Regardless of the changes that happen around me, God remains a constant. When I really need God is when I look the hardest to find Him.
I want to encourage all of you to look out for God. Sometimes, if you’re like me, it’s when you need Him the most that you can feel Him the most: when you are getting ready to go back to school after a great week of camp and feeling like the people at school just won’t understand, or you’re moving to a new place, or you family is having troubles. It’s during times like this that we need a constant, and it’s exciting to remember that God is that constant—both in our ordinaries and in those times we are venturing out into the unknown.
So here’s to adventures and new experiences…and to looking for God in these things!
Kate McIntyre--SLT Director 2009
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