God's always loved you.

" Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the EVERLASTING God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired and weary and His understanding no one can fathom." Isaiah 40:28

This was camp's memory verse this past week. It's one of my favorites!

Yesterday I was watching a video testimony from the website "wonderfully made" and the girl speaking shared a quote. She said "There has never been a moment when God hasn't loved you".
That really hit me. It's way comforting.

Never.

Ever.

The times when I decided I didn't "need" God, or the days when I was doubting, the times when I didn't acknowledge God's presence at all...He still. loved. me. He has always loved me and He really always will.
I'm so thankful that God is a loving God.

This week I went to a Bible study led by some friends for the summer and really enjoyed it. They are studying John because it is meant to be geared towards "seekers" or people who are newer in the faith. No one like that came though...ha. but it was still good. It was very refreshing to talk about the word with other people and discuss what the verses meant for each of us.

Lately I'm really loving Bible stories. For what seems like forever I didn't enjoy reading the Old Testament. Lately though, I'm really interested in those stories and hearing them and also applying them to my life.
I've been reading Ezra...

No Job prospects. I'm starting to accept the idea that I will have to sub for a year or so to make connections before I can get a job.

The theme this summer at CSF is about other countries that are persecuted. It's been awesome because every week I'm reminded about how blessed I am to live here in America. Sometimes I don't understand why we live in such abundance here and then there are countries that have close to nothing.... it's so hard to grasp. I've been reminded to pray for them though and to be grateful for what I have.

This Thursday I'm finally starting my training for that new evening job I mentioned before.
I'm also being the arts and crafts person this week instead of a counselor to fill in for Christin. She's going on vacation.
Should be an interesting week.

Lately I've also been reminded in a lot of ways, (kind of like I said last week) that this life is SO much more then what I tend to want to make it. It's not about me, or you, or anyone else but God and salvation.
It's the greatest gift in the history of the world, and it's really all that matters. :)

What a joy!

Wishing everyone a nice Fourth of July!

(Ps. I don't mean to keep changing my blog look, but I can't seem to find any I reallyyy like.)

Also, here are some pictures from camp this week!


We had our 4th of July parade! I'm a nerd and JJ is Thing 1




Me and one of my "nerdy" campers ;)