SP Chronicles #2

SugarPine Chronicles, Log Account 2...

Timber Mountain 2007 Week One is officially 36 hours from being over, and I'm glad it has come. But it was not at all what I was expecting.

This was the week of the outreach kids, all the inner city kids come in for a week of camp. These kids are the hardest to deal with by far, we've had quite a few fights and agressive arguments among the kids. It's also the most taxing week in my opinion, cause it's our first week, we're still learning a couple things, and these kids have some serious energy and annoyance issues lol. But God was with us the whole time, and gave us the strength and the guidance the whole way through.

On Tuesday I caught myself doing something dangerous: putting myself on autopilot. I worked here last summer, and was doing the same exact job as before. I hadn't even practiced on the rock wall until Monday, and that was my first day working it, no sweat. But I realized that though it was a good thing that I could help other staff guys since I already knew how everything worked, I wasn't really focused on what I was doing and wasn't putting my heart into it. Big no no, that's the opposite of what I came here to do.

Also, I'm really homesick for a couple people back home. Heck, I'm HOMEsick. I wanna sleep in more than 6 hours a day (I'm getting generally 5 or less on the average here). I'm doing three worship sets a day and by nature I'm a loud guy, so by the end of the day my voice is dead, which is why I've been downing four cups of lemon tea a day with 5 packs of honey in each. And it doesn't help that my only real communication with Kit is through snail mail letters, which is going to end for a time now since she's leaving for Haiti for 10 days. Which I think is totally awesome, but I really miss her bad. In all honesty, there's no good reason by normal standards why I should be submitting myself to this. But God has called me to this position, and He is growing me through this to re-discover my inspiration for my faith.

So let's see, prayer requests...I'M HOMESICK AND WHINY, to put it in concise terms. I wanna go home and be comfortable and work a job that actually pays me the right amount for what I do instead of spending time with kids that barely ever get to see God's love in their lives. I wanna be selfish. I wanna go to sleep. I wanna soak in a bubble bath.

Keep me in your prayers. Thanks much guys.