It Was The Best Summer of My Life: Part I

Sorry everyone that it has been so long but I did not have internet over the summer so I apologize. I do believe that I will remember this summer for the rest of my life because God has never worked so much in my life and I had never got to expereince the things before that I got to do this summer. The best way to express myself will be in three seperate blogs i do not know if they will all get done tonight but I believe that these are just some things that I have to get out of my head and carefully process them through my heart so I understand myself what is going on in my life and what God is trying to teach me through these experiences.

The first part of this is about my giant epiphany that I had at camp and how it has changed my life so far. Camp this year was completely awesome and for all of you guys that missed it I feel sorry for you. I had just an awesome cabin with a great group of guys. My favorite guy in my cabin, some of you may know him, was Nathan Farkash. If you read this Nathan you were the best junior counselor i have ever had and you made camp for me. For any of you that do not kno, Nathan runs like a Gazelle. What was so awesome about Nathan was that him and I were going through and had gone through some of the same things so we could have some good talks, and his Gazellness helped us kick but in games and severly made up for the lackingness of my Elephantness. Once again my cabin won the overall cabin cleanup prize which was a sweet Canada stool. What I love most about camp was that the reason we won the prize is because I beat David in a wrestling match for 200,000 points haha. Dave you will never beat me.

The epiphany that I had at camp was the result of my faith over the last year. It being the first year away from home my walk was all over the place. I loved being away from home and I loved the fact that I really had no obligations anymore. The result of this freedom was that I was no longer obligated to go to church. I had placed other priorities above my walk, although this wasn't the first time I had done this in my life, this one had the most drastic consequences. Although there were not any physical consequences such as a police record, intoxication, or worse, there were drastic spiritual consequences. It got to the point where I had consumed myself with everything that wasn't God that I got to the point where I had completey deafened my ears to his voice. Even though I subconciously knew what I was doing I honestly did not want to change my ways at first. That was until I got to camp. This was the first camp that I have been at where I did not hear God talking to me and that is when I realized why I couldn't hear him. On the other hand, I believe that it was good for me because it pretty much wiped the slate clean for my walk. It took me back to the basics and I believe that it was almost like I was excepting christianity all over again. The choice that was pressed upon my heart at camp was whether or not God exists. I simply had to choose yes or no. I believe that God gave me this choice because I had to decide for myslef whether or not I was going to be a Christian. It was no longer going to be living out my parents faith I had to make it my own. So I simply choose and for the first time knew what it meant to have the faith of a child. God just plain out existed it did not matter how or where or why he just did and I think that is so awesome.

After camp I was starting to realize Christianity and what it is. A lot of the knowledge I was blessed with came from a book called "The Jesus I Never Knew" by Phillip Yancy. Tyler suggested it and it was awesome. For the frist time in my life the human side of Jesus was portrayed in a way that it made him easier to reach. Not that I could ever be him but just the fact that he was human made him a lot closer. I realized that the church is always portraying God is this giant supernatural unniversal being and he is but that side of him is so difficult to empathise with and have a relationship with. But just knowing that Jesus was human makes it that much easier to have a relationship with him. Just knowing that he struggled through all of the things that we struggled with makes it that much easier to represent and strive to be more like him. Now that I found I could have a relationship with him i just had to figure out how.

I remember fishing with my brother Mike. I love fishing and i always have a great time evn if we have to row that boat across the entire lake. Besides only catching two 4 inch perch i rember a conversation with him. I asked how the heck am I suppose to have a personal relationship with Jesus? Everyone always says that you just have to read your bible everyday and pray. But I thought outloud that there had to be more to it than that. I thought that I was missing something from this big picture but I could not figure out what. As I look back now I realise just how childish I was being because that really is all there is to having a relationship with Christ. That is what I want every Christian in the world to know this is how we communicate with the most powerful being in the world.

That will be all for the first part. It feels so good to blog again. I hope you guys all come visit me in Edmonton I have a new wicked awesome basement suit and I could cook you some wicked food. Here are a couple camp pictures for you guys. Tootles.