oh happy day.

yesterday and today we have been preparing for a community Christmas party that we host for all the neighbors of RVR. we are pretty loud in the summer and we bring in a lot of traffic to the area. in appreciation of our neighbor's great attitudes and patience with us we throw them a Christmas party. so the interns have been helping decorate and set up inflatables for the kids.. these inflatables are massive.. we washed them out all day yesterday and then patched the holes today.. we may have then played in and on them for a good bit of the day :) one of many reasons i love my job, but another reason i love my job is that we reach out to the community.. we don't just sit in our bubble and let people come to us. we go to them and we show them the love of the Father we believe in. it's a great opportunity that we have here at a place like this.. the same goes for other camps as well. after lunch we had our 2nd Old Testament class.. i love this class. it really challenges me and makes me think a lot about my faith and what i believe. it also teaches me a lot of what i don't know which i realized is more than i thought. today we talked about how the life of Moses foreshadowed the life of Christ. it was some pretty amazing stuff and pretty neat to see how the Lord was working out his plan through one man's life. the topic of prayer was then brought up and why we pray for healing if the Lord already has His perfect plan.. something in me just lit up.. i started thinking that if my prayers don't mean anything and they have no effect then what am i doing? but i know they do and i know they are heard. the Bible commands us to pray and to pray for one another.. i may not understand the mind of God, but i know that he wants to hear from us and He wants to answer our prayers.. it may not be the way we expect, but nonetheless they are answered. and for that it is a happy day. :)

beth.