“daring princess camp” was amazing!! so much fun, so challenging in a million different ways. we had a lot of homesick girls this week which made things tough, but there were also so many intriguing questions, and girls in need of someone to really listen to them and love them that it made up for all the rough patches. also, so many of the talks seemed geared just for me–it’s great the way God works that out, you know? 
even just the stuff that was asked/required of me was challenging: get my guitar out again and play/lead for campfire, dance again, jump in and lead a small group halfway through the week, have some theological conversations with 10-year-olds and try to explain the mystery of the Incarnation,… talk about tough. so, all in all, when friday night came i was ready for a night in my own bed. but that didn’t last long.
deryck and anna and i left at 6a.m. for our trek down to milligan college in tenn. to meet up with daniel after he’d been there for the first week of 7 doing CiY. we went hiking to this beautiful waterfall (which will soon be visible on daniel’s blog, i’m sure), but about 15 minutes after being there and soaking our feet in some icy cold water, it started pouring down rain. we had planned on camping, but all four of us decided it wasn’t worth being wet and miserable the rest of our trip, so we came back to milligan and showered and camped out in the two bedroom apt. we’re staying in for the next two weeks. so, that was fun. and we can go camping next week perhaps. (almost two years of marriage, and we still haven’t gone… and that was one of our plans for our honeymoon even! funny how life doesn’t go the way you think it will… you can plan and plan, but it usually doesn’t even matter in the end.)
so, here we are, week 2 of CiY starts today. i’m so glad to be here, with daniel, finding a spot to help out i’m sure, but maybe also just using the time to relax and catch up on some reading and whatnot. we’ll see how all of this goes. there will be a lot of seeking God, i know, too, and Him reaching in and stirring up the pot and bringing new things to the surface, as He always does.
“so hold on, lover, and hold on, friend, it’s a reckless world we’re living in… yet if i am to be held by you, you held by me, we can close our eyes and still we see the bond of truth: a cord of three…”
