random thoughts

Two more weeks before the fall semester starts. Man, I feel as though I've achieved absolutely nothing for the past three months of summer. Right after we got off school a day before my birthday, I jotted down a long list of things I wanted to accomplish during the summer break. It looked something like this:

learn to play the guitar
prepare lessons for Cru meetings next semester
read nursing textbooks in advance
walk and jog
lose 15 pounds!
re-read The Unity of The Bible, The Practice of Godliness, etc.
rent out how-to-speak-Spanish videos from the public library

all of which barely entered my mind (and, consequently, were all left undone) as the stifling hot summer days whisked past a hapless and distracted me.

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Why do we most often avoid our brothers and sisters in Christ when we need their encouragement, or reproof, even, the most?

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I just got back from our church's family camp. The six-hour drive to Leakey, a secluded town in the Texas hill country that barely looks like a dot in the map, was really worth it. What could beat free (and not to mention scrumptious) breakfasts and lunches, a crystal clear mountain stream flowing through towering pine trees and teaching five-year old kids their memory verses?

Pictures to follow. I'm busy right now.

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Food. I need food. Lord, I'm hungry for You.

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Psalm 42.11