Just read my journal from the two months I spent at Lake Champion last summer. Wow is all I can say. God showed up and completely transformed my life in those two months. Reading all of this is blowing my mind. I leave tomorrow morning for Summer Staff and I'm expecting God to show up in even bigger ways this month while I'm on waterfront again. Pray that I'm broken down and built back up to look more like Jesus. Pray that walls would be broken down in the lives of campers and that they would be absolutely transformed by the love of Christ this month. Pray that our words, actions, and lives would be an example of what having a full life in Christ truly means. Pray that my own walls would be broken down and that I would have a transparency with the people I'll be serving with.

I won't have my phone or Facebook so write to me!

Young Life's Lake Champion

247 Mohican Lake Road

Glen Spey, NY 12737

"So that's where my mind and heart are these days: more moments of Heaven, and less locking of the knees. More awareness of God's presence and action and ability, and less stranglehold on my fear and anxiety. More floating, and less getting tumbled....

....I know now that I can make it through more than I thought, with less than I thought. I know better than to believe that the changes are over, and I know better than to believe the next ones will be easier, but I've learned the hard way that change is one of God's greatest gifts and one of his most useful tools. I've learned the hard way that change can push us, pull us, rebuke and remake us. It can show us who we've become, in the worst ways, and also in the best ways. I've learned that it's not something to run away from, as though we could, and I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead of function of God's graciousness." -Bittersweet

"I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes."

in Your freedom I will live.

The lyrics to In Your Freedom by Hillsong are the words to the prayer in my heart today....

"I search for You God of strength

I bow to You in my brokenness

And no other King could have so humbly come

To save my soul and heal my heart

I have nothing more than all You offer me

There is nothing else that's of worth to me

And I love You Lord

You rescued me

You are all that I want

You're all that I need

I pray to You God of peace

I rest in You my cares released

I have nothing more than all You offer me

There is nothing else that's of worth to me

And I love You Lord

You rescued me

You are all that I want

You're all that I need

In Your freedom I will live

In Your freedom I will live

I offer devotion, I offer devotion"

For some time now I've been filling my life with things that leave me empty at the end of the day. All I really desire is to know my Lord more and more. I'm resting in His truth and promises, especially today. I've made a mess of my life recently and I'm declaring that today is the end of it all. I will NOT find my worth in anything/anyone but the One who created me with His own hands. My God is the One who saves and redeems and He is restoring my life even this very second. I will rest in the Lord and NOTHING ELSE. His love comes with no conditions and I want to live in the freedom that comes from His true love. The crazy mess in my life is delivering me right into the palm of God's hand and pulling me into His heart, which is where I always want to be.

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God had poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." [Romans 5: 1-5]

I just LOVE that little nugget of truth! Mmm mmm good. Meditating on this piece of Scripture today.