This week was a little stressful at times, but we made it through alright and things went well. I had a young girl in my cabin with CP and her twin sister was also in my cabin and she had ADHD. At first I thought the girl with CP was going to be a huge challenge, but she had an aide with her and she was not as needy as I thought she would be. She could pretty much do everything on her own she just needed help with getting dressed and cleaning up after meals. She was a very sweet girl and a lot of fun to be with. Her sister on the other hand was an interesting one. We had a lot of issues with bed wetting and also wetting her pants throughout the day. She said she knew when she had to go to the bathroom she just spaced out at times and forgot to go and then went in her pants. I had a hard time understanding this and having compassion for her as well as patience. We had to wash her sleeping bag three times and change her clothes two or three times during the week. As a camper she wasn’t a bad girl, she just had trouble remembering when we told her to do things and she had trouble focusing, but other than that she was fine. At times I thought maybe she was just trying to get attention and that’s why she wet her pants often, but I’m not really sure. Her home life didn’t sound too great and having a sister with CP would be hard if her parents were always dealing with her. There was also another girl in our cabin who I spent a lot of time talking with about different things. She was very quiet at the beginning of camp during devotions and such so I asked her if anything was wrong or if she had any questions. We started talking about God and His love and she said that she didn’t feel like God was really there and didn’t think He listened to her prayers. I talked with her about that and then the next day when we were talking about salvation and accepting Jesus into your heart, she started getting quiet again. I talked with her afterward and she said she was really confused about things. She had been baptized as an infant and thought that was her way into heaven, but after hearing us talk she was confused. It was hard and sad for me to tell her that she needed to make the decision herself and that this whole time she had not truly been saved. She said she understood that and I could tell that she seemed very down about what we told her. She didn’t really talk about spiritual things for the rest of the week with me or the other counselor, but I know God has been working in her heart and will continue to. It would be great if you could pray for her as well as all the kids who are dealing with divorced parents and having to go through that at such a young age. It’s sad to see the hurt in the kids’ lives and see that they have not been shown what love really is and then they are confused about God’s love for them and they don’t understand the awesomeness of it all.
I was reminded of God’s amazing power and provision this week as I was struggling with feeling His presence in my life. I felt empty at the beginning of the week and continued to pray for God to fill me with life and as the week went on I felt His hand working on my heart for my campers and it was just neat to see and feel a new strength and love in my life pour out to the kids. I read in Job about God’s response to Job’s friends’ comments and was once again in awe of how amazing and incredible our God is. Job 38 says: “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? Who shut the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt?” I love reading about God’s creation and thinking about it because I can see it around me and feel it. How can I not know that God loves and cares for me when I see how much care and time He put into making everything around me? The beautiful colors He placed in a sunset is nothing compared to the beauty He placed in each of us.
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