Home.

I am home. Yes...finally home. I went to CIY for a week, then came home for less than a day, did my laundry and left for camp with the worship team. Hindsight of the week, it was a really great week, but it was still extremely trying. That's the best way that I think it could be worded.

However, there were some really awesome worship experiences last week. One of which was on tuesday night. We walked down to a creek and the speaker invited students into the creek to symbolically represent the cleansing of Jesus as he wipes away all of our blemishes. The worship team lead with a couple acoustic guitars. It was really cool.

On thursday night, there was a big storm approaching as we began worship. One song into our set, the power was shot. Instead of freaking out and freezing up though, we just kept going. Josh and Ryan went picked up the extra acoustics. It was especially cool because we had been doing this experiential thing with candles anyway, so when the power went out we still had light and it was really cool. It's nights like those that make me look past all the strenuous things that happen when it comes to putting trips and camps together.

So yeah, I'm happy to be home though. I've really missed some of my friend here. I've thought about how cool it would be to intern with CIY or an organization like that over a summer, but then when I think more seriously about it, I know that there would be almost no way I could do it. I think I'm just tied down to Ohio. Not in a bad way, of course, but I just mean that I'd be really nervous to leave everything and everyone I've ever known. Things just wouldn't be the same when I came home...I guess that's what I'm most frightened of. I'm not removing any possibility of being called away from here eventually...but I know, without a doubt, this is where I need to be right now.


(oh, and keep an eye out on the flickr for a bit...I'm going to be putting up CIY and Camp pictures here pretty soon!)