The only word I can come up with for training camp was
intense! Our days were filled with sessions on how to pack, how to clean food, what things to avoid (un-purified water), how to let go of our pasts, differences in cultures, how to listen to God, understanding God’s gifts to us,
team building etc. I am refreshed and exhausted!
I could write about so many aspects of training but for now, here is one thing that God really showed me during camp. I need to give up the control I have over my life and let God have it. During one night of worship I was praying and God put in my mind a picture of 3 green tulips. The flowers were standing as if they had stems but they didn’t. God reminded me that if he could hold these flowers up, then couldn’t he hold me up as well? I can tell already that I’m going to have to lie this at God’s feet every day. It’s not easy to give up control! And yet my life is not my own and that’s ok. I’m far better off in God’s hands.
