This is literally the third blog I’ve attempted to write since training camp, so hopefully it’ll make it’s way to actually being posted!
Wow, training camp… where do I even begin. It was an unbelievable 10 days with the staff and family that I’ll be journeying with for the next 13 months!! There are so many things I could write about training camp, but I’ll probably save that for another day (if you’re dying to know what went on, check out 1 of the 30+ blogs from my teammates here).
The hardest part of training camp for me was leaving. It’s tough coming home after experiencing this amazing time with community and God. I love all my friends and family at home, but it’s just different going from spending time with God 24/7 to coming back and having to prioritize a variety of different things.
And I’ve failed miserably at this EVERY time I’ve come home from a conference, trip, and retreat. I get sucked back into “life” where God has taken a back seat to the many other things I prioritize first. But even though I have this awful track record, I know something is going to be different this time. And I know it’ll be different when I come back in 2018.
I will never go back to being okay with giving God my sloppy seconds of time. It’s definitely a huge struggle, and I’m not saying it won’t happen… but I’m not okay with it. I want to experience Him and what He can do all the time, not just at retreats and such! He makes life exciting, and I want to join in on this amazing adventure! It’s so much more satisfying seeing how He can touch people’s lives in ways that I could never imagine, and He chooses to use us to do it! I want to be apart of that… who doesn’t!?
So for that very reason, I will NEVER be the same. You can’t see all the crazy things God does and leave having not changed at all. I have a pretty cool story about this from camp, but you’ll have to tune in next week to hear about it!
