Summer Ramblings

So here are some more summer ramblings of me.

So we have just started our staff training and with it starts our Staff Devotions. Every morning after breakfast we have a staff devotional time and then with the verses and the stuff we talked about we are to journal what we think.

Well we are doing the same thing we did last year, which is cool because I get to see how I have grown since a year ago. Our main verse that we use is John 10:10. We talk about how Christ came to give us life, but we also talk about what Satan does to destroy and to take our lives.

Today we were talking about the lies that Satan tells us to destroy our lives. At the end of our journaling we had to write out the lies that Satan is using on us personally. I started writing out the list…and it kept growing. I realized what a hold Satan had on my life. I realized that there are so many times that when I look at myself (either physically in a mirror or just at my own thoughts about myself) that I look at myself through Satan’s eyes. And because I do that I don’t see who God made me, but I see who the world has made me. I see myself as ugly and not having the perfect body, or I see myself as not important and unworthy of those around me. But then there are other times when God helps me to remove those filters that Satan puts in front of me and I am able to see myself as God made me. And that is in His image. So how I could ever think of myself as unworthy and not beautiful seems crazy when I think about it.

So overall God has been teaching me some amazing things and camp has not even started yet (even though I have been here for 5 weeks already). Our God is so amazing.

Deborah's Summer...So far...

So my summer so far has consisted of a missions trip and being on Caton's. The time here on Caton's has be interesting so far. We have gotten the camp all ready for campers. We have had a counselor workshop here, trained CITs and have had school groups come on. There are only a handful of us here, but that number keeps growing. I have watched the entire first season of ER and am now on Season 2.
I have bought a camera (a Canon Rebel XTi). And a hand gun (ok so it is a bb gun)...that does not shoot straight. I have read a Hardy Boys book and two Ted Dekker books and one Jannett Oke books.
I have missed my friends and pray for them each day. I think of all of them so often. I miss them when I feel like no one here cares for me. And when I am treated as just a lacky and not someone that is in a head position. I have worked from the bottom rung up to get to where I am today, and I feel like I should be treated with more respect then I am treated with. To be treated not as someone who has never been here before (seeing as I have worked here for a long time).
But it is all in God's hands and i just need to give my worries and concerns to Him each morning and remember that He will take care of me.
I heard a country song the other day called "Tear drops on my guitar" and boy did I feel like I related to it..just because the girl feels so out of the loop.
I hope all of your summers are going well.

Deborah Ruth