Well, once again it’s been way too long. Let me catch you all up on a few things.
On September 1st, the entire squad joined Team
Abandon at Casa Shalom, where we spent the month of August. Our squad leaders, Patrice and Gretchen,
thought that it would be beneficial for the whole squad to be together for a
month. Now the month is almost over, and
I can tell you that this month has been very interesting. Some good things have happened, some hard
things have happened, some sucky things have happened, but all in all, I think
that it has been a good month.
Within four days of being all together, we lost 3 squad
mates for various reasons and our teams were changed. Team Abandon stayed together, but Cori was
placed as our new team leader. We gained
two people, Scottie Langston and Hannah Olsen, from Team Azariah, which was
completely split apart.
Our new team has been able to meet together as a team a few
times now. There was a general consensus
that we should change our team name, because really, we are a brand new
team. A lot of discussion and time went
into this, and we finally came up with a name. Are you ready for this? We are
now Team S’more. The idea behind this is
that we want s’more of God, and as a bonus, we all like s’mores and would like
to eat them together one day. There is
also going to be an acronym that goes with this, but that is still in the works. I will make sure that you all find out what S’more
stands for once we come to a final decision.
losing people, but I believe that for the most part, they were necessary, and a
lot of growth will come out of it. In
fact, growth already has come out of it, both as a squad and individually.
Honestly, it has been hard for me to accept and understand
why some of the changes had to happen. I
just don’t understand the logic behind it. I have been doing a lot of thinking and praying this month, and the one
thing that seems to keep coming up is that there is so much more to life. It is so easy to get caught up in the little
things, things that, in the grand scheme of thing, won’t make a
difference. I have realized that far too
often, I am thinking about myself; what do I want and what will make me
comfortable? I do not want this mind set
any longer. I want to learn to move past
what I want and start focusing on what God wants. I want to be obedient to him, even when it
hurts or I don’t like it. When my eyes
are totally on Jesus, everything else will fall into place. I don’t have to worry about where we will be
next month or who we will be with. I don’t
have to worry about where I will go after the Race and how I am going to get
there. God’s got it.
