Boys, Summer Camp, and God

Summer Camp although many months ago still resounds in my heart. We took the kids from Glenwood to Washington, DC for a long weekend.

I joke with a friend of mine that God designed me to hang out with boys instead of the girls. I love each of them but I really like to run around with the boys, not staying long at one thing before we are off to another. It's go go go, I love the adventure! And then they are always ready to go before were done and they get impatient after having to wait on the girls. I think I love being with them because they are so different from me. If I were in a museum I would stop at everything and read it and talk about it and look at all the pictures. When with them I get to see what matters the most to them, what makes them excited. One place we both enjoyed was in the Natural History Museum, they had a huge room of gems and beautiful rocks. We checked out the diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies..... They loved the bling! I felt so special as they wanted me to look at everything with them and talk over what they would do with these rare treasures.

One night we had a Church come to the Bible College we were staying and minister to the kids (see the Pastor in the first pic above). They have a Church in Maryland that ministers to hundreds of youth. They were having such a huge response from the kids in the area that the very weekend we went to visit their Church we found out they had been shut down because they were exceeding capacity (they were in an office park). So they came to us (so like God to make us feel special). We played games, got to know one another and then settled in to hear the message the Pastor brought. It moved the kids and at the end he asked that we gather around the kids and pray for them. A couple of young men from the church surrounded two of our boys who just happened to be sitting by them. When they started to pray and speak life over them the boy's hardness broke. I heard them speaking the most positive things over them about their boyhood and there place in the kingdom of God. I thought these boy's have probably never had someone speak into their life like this. Through the Holy Spirit they were speaking into their lives there position in God's kingdom, that God created them for greatness, that he thinks that they are mighty and fearfully and wonderfully made. I truly felt at that moment that they felt God reach down and say I am proud of you like no other, I love you like no other and I created you like no other. WOW is an understatement!

The Boy's have been on my heart so much lately. I am praying that a male role model takes the time to invest into their lives on a regular basis..... I am burdened because the streets can be hard, it waits to tell them lies.... Please be praying with me!