Bear with me as I didn’t take any pictures from training camp so I had to steal them from facebook. I’m such a cheat 😉 Camp started out bad to be quite honest. I was late and frustrated because I got lost. So when I got there most people had already exchanged pleasentries and got the awkwardness out of the way. After the activities that evening I was ready for some shut-eye. Fortunately the Lord decided to bless us with some rain, unfortunately I had forgotten to put on the rainfly for my tent. thats no good. Anyway My tent leaked for the rest of the week. I could go on and on about how all kinds of other bad things, misfortunate things, happened to me but the truth is the freedom I received, overwhelms it. The way God spoke to me makes everything else seem like a practical joke rather then some great travesty specifically to torture me. I struggled with the way God was using me. He was asking me to put away things I had held onto for so long and I didn’t want to let go. Not all of it was bad. some of it most people would consider good but He wanted it all. 
Once I was willing to surrender all these things, the weight just started to peel off. I knew I still had things to deal with when I got home but the pressure was gone. The things I had struggled with for the past 12 years were gone. The Lord had laid the enemy at my feet. I’m not saying that I will never struggle again, but I am saying that I have a choice. And I have a voice. At the end of the 10 days it all came full circle. I was told by some people that they could see a change in me. They’ve only known me 10 days but they noticed something different in me than when I met them. That is awesome! So Today is the first day back in the “real world” but I haven’t been able to forget the lessons I learned in camp. Jeremiah 29:11. He knows the plans he has for you and I promise they are always, infinitly better than yours!
