Last Week of Camp

The summer is over and the last week of camp just finished! I think that this was my favorite week out of all of them. The kids were so sweet and precious and very open to God's working in their heart.

I have pictures to put up later but we don't have internet for that much longer so I'll put them up when I get back. I do have one that nicely sums up what I've been learning. Well, I've been learning a lot and it would take hours to explain but...

One theme is that the whole Bible is one big story and it's sad that we tend to chunk it into smaller stories. One of those themes is that God is light, good, and loves life. We see it with the creation of the world in Genesis and to the end continue to see it. God turns the ickyness of sin and darkness into something beautiful. He created the world from void, he saves sinners from sin, he changes trials into hope. I passage I read in Romans reminded me of this.

Romans 5 says "Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and ^(C)hope does not fail, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1 John 1:3