Lessons From A Horse

This week I was presented with the question..."What have you learned from the horses this week?"

I had to stop for a minute and think about that. I have really taken my job a week at a time and just gotten through each day not truly paying attention to what God had to teach me through my job. I took the rest of the afternoon to think about my time here at camp and ponder the lessons that I have learned from the horses.

Lesson Number 1: I need WAY more patience in my daily attitude "diet"
Horses are not always the most patient creatures. They have a tendency to be impatient when waiting for trail rides, when going on the trail ride, when vaulting...ok basically all the time. Being a wrangler I have the tendency to get frustrated with them for not being patient and yet how many times a day am I impatient for something and allow people to be frustrated with me.

Lesson Number 2: I need to be considerate of other people's feelings in each situation.
Horses have emotions just like we do. They get scared, they get angry, they are sad and happy. There are so many times a week that I get upset about something or I get scared and I really hate it when people get irritated with me for feeling the way that I do. Being a wrangler I get to experience lots of pony "moods" and I would get so frustrated with them when they would be anything but happy. The thought was presented to me that if I don't like others to be frustrated with me then what right do I have to become frustrated with others?

Lesson Number 3: I need to have a heart that is more submissive.
Since I have been here I have been able to watch a few horses get round-penned. Basically, they get in trouble and get to run around in circles. As we were watching our vaulting horse get a work-out this week we were talking about the way that she was looking, out, away from the person in the middle of the pen. Why was she doing that? She was looking for a way out. I really thought about that and how a horse being worked is like a Christian who is going through a trial that God puts in their path. Until we are ready to be punished for wrongdoing or go through a trial and look to Christ rather than look for a way out we will continue to go though that experience in a painful way.

Those are the things that I learned this past week. Things that God placed on my heart and convicted me about. So with new lessons learned and a wonderful relaxing weekend ahead of me I will Keep Calm and Write On.

Another Week...An Incredible Paycheck

Well dear readers another week has come to a close here at beautiful Wolf Mountain. Tonight I got my paycheck for the week, and what a paycheck it was. Paychecks here are a little different than they are for other people who work a 9-5 job. My paycheck comes in the form of the incredible things that God does in the lives of staff, campers, and even me during the week of camp!

This week God truly showed himself faithful, as He always does, to me and my friends here at camp.   As we were preparing for another exciting week of camp Satan decided to throw some "fiery darts" at us. Almost half of the staff here got hit hard with a virus that took a few out for this week of camp. We really had to work together as a team to fill in missing pieces and make it all work, but God was faithful and provided those missing pieces and allowed this week of camp to be incredible. Monday morning several staff members woke up to no water running through the pipes of their homes, yet another bump in the road that God smoothed out as our water was running again by the end of the day! The Lord also allowed us to have multiple campers come this week who were not saved and presented many challenges to their counselors and the other staff here at camp, and once again God was faithful and we saw lives truly changed for Christ!

This summer I am getting the BEST paycheck that I have ever received, sure I may be a poor college student, still, at the end of the summer, but spiritually I have gained SOOOOO much!! The Lord taught me that I have areas of my life that I need to work on and He has slowly shown me how I can live a life that is more pleasing to Him.

Dear readers please keep the team here at Wolf Mountain in your prayers. We are preparing to send these precious children back to their homes and prep for another exciting week of camp, this time Teen Camp!!! Pray that the Lord will be preparing hearts and minds to receive the word and that it would be another FABULOUS week of camp!! For now I will Keep Calm and Write On...oh yeah...and Finish Med School! :)

Let the Summer Begin

Dear Readers,
First of all I apologize for pretty much dropping off the face of the planet for the past 2 months. Life has been terribly crazy with the semester ending, changing my major, and then packing up and heading out west for the summer adventure of a lifetime!!!

Camp is a big part of my summer adventure. I have been here for three weeks as part of an AMAZING team. I am working as a wrangler this summer. We just finished our very first week of camp with campers. Jr. Camp kept us all on our feet. We are all now enjoying the fact that we have a day and a half to catch up on sleep and relax before we have about 100 campers descend upon our lovely little camp for another week of business and fun.

For now that's about it, I promise I will try to write a little more about camp and the fun things that happen. But for now I will Keep Calm and Write On...and Finish Med School!!!!