Hello from Panera! What a wonderful week it has been. A week of hard work, fellowship, and expoloring North Georgia and the beauty it truly beholds! Thursday we explored Babyland General Hospital which is where the Cabbage Patch Kids are from. What a place. kinda creepy. so basically Friday we went in search of a good hike with a waterfall and we found what we were looking for! It was about a 2 mile hike to the waterfall and it was thundering but no rain...but as soon as we got to the waterfall took a few pictures the rain came pouring. And boy did it pour! What an amazing God moment the 7 of us on staff enjoyed an awesome time. We worshiped. Praising the Lord for his beauty and his majesty. His power displayed in the thunderstorm and his beauty truly displayed in the waterfall. God is so good. The song our god is greater kept coming to my heart. "OUR God is greater, Awesome in power, God you are higher than ANY other, Our God is healer AWESOME in power, OUR GOD, OUR GOD!!!" Let our lives be one of worship and one of dedication to the king. He makes waterfalls in North Georgia, Canyons in Arizona, and beautiful beaches all down the coast. I love him and im not worthy to love him. But he wants me too anyways! He wants this broken child to come to him and praise him for the waterfalls and all things he created. so cool. so moving.
Currently sitting in Panera I'm with some of my staff but right behind me is a group of older Christian women who are knitting. They are talking about their lives and laughing and knitting. I want to always be apart of a strong community. I want that just as much now as a 2o year old as I do for when I'm 80. Being apart of a strong God centered community keeps you supported,challenged, accountable, and grounded. TEAMeffort has been that this summer. and I start to think what will that community be when im 30? when im 50? when im 80? The people, the expierences, and the setting might change throughout my life.Yes I accept this. but the Lord being center of that community won't and so God will be people in my life and he HAS no matter my age or the place I am in my life. Because like I've seen this summer there ARE strong christian woman in every state!
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how WIDE and LONG and HIGH and DEEP is the love of Christ, and to know this love SURPASSES knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the FULLNESS of God. Now to him who is able to do IMMEASURABLY more than all we ask or imagine, according to his POWER that is at work within us, to him be GLORY in the church and in Christ Jesus THROUGHOUT all generations, for ever and ever! Amen"
-Ephesians 3:14-20
WE derive from his name. how cool is that. I continue to marvel at the works of my waterfall making, mountain shaping, star placing creator.
I'll be home Wednesday and I look forward to seeing everyone but I won't forget the things I have seen this summer. I won't forget the places I've been to, the campers and chaperones I have had the honor to work with, and the feelings and emotions I have felt. I won't. I won't forget the moments of sometimes silent surrender, sometimes louder surrender, and always peaceful surrender.
I love you all very much!
-Mary D
Galatians 1:10
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