Anyways, Foundation was AH-MAZ-ING! I loved loved my small group girls and all of the campers I met and of course THE STAFF! I'm so sad that we won't be seeing each other every Sunday anymore..
The retreat really got me thinking about spiritual growth and of course everything has been laid into place since I got home yesterday. I picked back up in "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan today and it has really convicted me/answered my exact questions! Here's some of my recent points:
"just like when you are hungry but nothing sounds good, you still eat because you know if you don't eat you will die. This is just as spiritual growth should be, it should be continuous so that it does not die" The wonderful Bess Caldwell told me this the other night and it really stuck with me. It also goes along with this quote from Crazy Love, "If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream." It's so important to know that there's never time to "take a break". Not during summer break, winter break, when we're tired, NEVER.
Don't give God the leftovers. It's so easy to say a quick little prayer right before bed when things start to not make sense anyways, rather than take time out of the day to really pray. Or to be on a "spiritual high" when it's good timing. We need to remember that God is so worth all of our time and everything about everyday should be about Him.
We are called to LOVE. Love one another, Love God, and even love our enemies (Matthew 5:43-45). In Crazy Love, I was just reading this little "test". If we (followers of Christ) are to demonstrate love... replace the word "love" with your name in verses 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. RIIIIGHT.
" is patient, is kind. does not envy, does not boast, is not proud. is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs. does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth..."
The point of this and my whole day is that I need to focus on focusing on God 24/7. God designed everyone for a specific purpose and we should aspire to give him full attention. Just think, if something happened today, what have you been investing your time in?
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