It's been a while...

It has been a while since I have written a post.

I recently went on an adventure trip called "Slammed" with a ministry called Going the Distance (goingthedistance.org). This trip was a complete blessing from God which I now realize. This summer isn't really anything extravagant but this trip really made it the time of my life. My friend Tiffany said she was going on it and then my best friend Tim won a free trip with GTD, so then I figured I had to go or I was going to be missing out! Then we got two of our other friends to come also and it was all very last minute. I thank God and my parents for the finances because I know that I didn't have the money to go on the trip.

Anyway, we went to Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia and camped there for 4 days. We tubed the Hooch (the chattahoochee river), rock climbed and repelled 7 stories, hiked and went down sliding rock. It was so much fun and there was a lot of adventure. It is weird because I am not a very adventurous person or much of a camper but I had so much fun! Everyone just kind of did everything without thinking twice. I am terrified of heights and I was so amazed that I actually rock climbed.

Okay, now God stuff. =)
My verse for this week is 2 Timothy 3:16
"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straigtens us out and teaches us to do waht is right."
Paul is giving our shy friend Timothy some encouragement in this verse.
This verse kind of sums up the last couple years of my life. My senior year in highschool I was a very strongwilled person and tried to be a good christian leader in my church and in my school. Then in college I kind of started learning things about myself and realizing that I am not some "superhuman" that can do it all. Well this verse tells us basically that if you keep reading God's word you will find the flaws in your life you may not have known you had. Mine specifically would be selfishness, judging others, wanting attention(popularity)...blah blah.
It may take some sort of a "wake up" call for a christian to realize the things that are important in their lives. I think that once you have that wake up call and start to change, you will thank God that it happened.