I hugged my last teammate and then made my way to the plane. As I sat down in my window seat I let out a sigh.
Is this real life? Is training camp really over? Was I really in Tennessee for a week with 200+ strangers? Am I really going to spend an entire year with these people? Did I really just take that constructive stuff they said to me to heart, without being offended?
As I sit at home processing what just happened, I'm reminded of Daniel and his vision of a man (Daniel 10). He was so overwhelmed by what he saw that all he could do was liken it to what he already knew (knowing that his descriptions couldn’t do the man justice). This is how I feel about training camp.
How can I put everything that God did in my heart into words, when others don't really know the characteristics of my heart? All I can do is liken my experience to what I already know.
The only thing that I can say for sure is that the "box" that I've put God in my entire life, has been utterly destroyed.
You, as a reader, are never going to know the full extend to which I grew and was changed by a week of training camp, but I pray that you're tangibly able to see those changes in the way that I live my life.
The point of this blog is simply to let you know that I made it through training camp. Scratch that. I thrived at training camp. I've never felt so alive and so full of the Spirit. And I'm so excited for living each day in the fullness of the Spirit!
I will blog more about the specifics in time, so please bear with me as I do my best to process and work through all that God did in my heart last week! Thanks so much for loving me where I'm at, pushing me to grow, and for praying for me!
-Lauren
