Big Tough Guy!

Apparently I am a big tough guy, and apparently I need to deal with it.

Senior high camp was pretty neat this year, we had a smaller group and so there was less administrative coordinating stuff to do and I was able to be a bit more involved in what went on than I will be in the coming weeks. So it was like a warm up lap before the marathon. Or something.

Everyone there I knew, minus John, who was quiet but really came out at the end of camp, which was cool to see! It was pretty crazy to see how some of those guys have grown up...or haven't...heh Darren and I were really hoping it would be an intensely spiritual time for these students. We talked alot about depth and what it means to be deep and how deep we are. In a lot of ways I don't think, or it didn't seem that the kids were connecting or engaging in what we were talking about. I know I really was wondering how we were affecting them...there was not a lot of engagement, and there were a few times where we had good sharing, but sometimes nobody had anything to say...we ended the last night at the upper campfire, and we had a few good things said, but generally, everyone was silent. We ended with our last song and just stayed there in silence. Our discussions had seemed pretty shallow, our sharing had seemed pretty shallow, and it seemed like we weren't going to get any deeper, which was slightly discouraging.

But as we finished the last song, noone said anything, and everyone sat very still and quiet. There was silence, and it was a deep silence. Not a word was spoken up there. People slowly started down, but the silence remained. It was powerful.

So it looks like I really had God in a box on this one, I was looking for depth where I thought I'd find it, and it was refreshing to see how going deep with students is what God does, and we have no way of really measuring that. Who knows how lives were changed this weekend? God will do what he wants and we will see it if he lets us.

Our staff did a great job of conneting with the studnets and being with them. Chillin like the youngsters these days do. Jason really was lookin hot in a tight black vest, and Ami and Lisa showed up as sharply (and I do mean sharply) dressed men. Not the first time I have seen them in that get up, I think lisa wishes she could grow a mustache, she's always throwin on some sort of curly whiskers or sharpie goatee with them slick suits. Those two cleaned up better than I could in a suit. Depending on who you ask I suppose...

Ori comes back soon! I really want to talk with him. Plus, hes wierd, and I like that. I've lost my touch in his absence. I can't imagine what brand of wierdness he will possess now after returning from japan...

Are you beakin me? Deal with it! Lets get this straight......you.....are beakin me? Your mouth is movin but all I hear is "I'm a big tough guy!" "Big tough guy gonna beak me?" Hey Tough Guy! Do somethin about it!"
I think I have heard enough of this talk till next year. later champ.