Seeing through Faith

The details of nature overwhelm me at this moment because I am seeing the world through my glasses after a week and a half of them being lost. As I wrote in my last blog, I lost them down at the lake after practicing a code Wednesday of Junior I week and to spite methodical combing of the area, could not find them.I had been earnestly praying because with my dreams of returning to my great-grandmother land, there was no way in ghetto hades that I could afford to replace them. For our Monday night camp council, we put on a skit for the kids about a girl who prays about finding a lost watch for the grumpy hired hand that works for her family, and sees where the watch is in a dream. As a result of her answered prayer, that grumpy man turns his frown upside down and sees that power of God. I was starting to have a hard time with that skit since my glasses were not turning up. Mind you, I consider myself a person who can accept God answering "no" to requests and taking the bigger picture into consideration, i.e. accepting that some trials we must bare to prove to our universe the terribleness of sin. The flip side of my struggle was that I also know that my God loves to help His people and does not expect them to live life without seeing the power of His hand, especially in the little aspects of our lives.

So Friday I was teaching swimming lessons, when our boy's director, Michael, made a special trip down to the pool to inform me that James, our nature instructor, and his class had found my glasses down by the lake after all. The best part is to spite mowing and horses trailing through that area, my glasses were intact save some bending and a lost ball-bearing. As of today they are very wearable. Praise God!

We've just started our last week of camp, which is teen week. I have seen God make room for some kids in my cabin that I think need to be there, and would appreciate your prayers that they might see His face in me. I am so sad that camp will be over in just a little less than a week.

Well, I am off to Indiana (the town, not the state) to get my CPR re-certified. Lake day is coming up and I want to spend as much time as possible in my hot brother's boat! He he he!