Reflections on Camp.... 5-5-5

I had the privilege of attending camp last week with Sahuarita AG as a dorm leader and it was a wonderful week! I had the 3 girls that went up with us as well as girls from two other churches in my dorm, they were all very well behaved and it was a great week! I am praying that the Lord will continue to work in all of their lives and keep bringing them closer to Him!

I was blessed to be reminded of a very simple key to building a closer relationship with the Lord again, as well as being blessed to see the Lord work in the lives of students. The speaker this week was Rick Pasquale, I've had the joy of hearing Pastor Rick speak at a youth camp on at least 2 prior occasions, so I was somewhat familiar with his formula for Camp services. I was, however, surprised at how the Lord used something as simple as 5-5-5 (Reading the Bible for 5 minutes, Talking to God for 5 minutes, and then listening to God for 5 minutes) to show me how I can begin to regain that close relationship with Him that I have been longing for.

I am always amazed at all that can happen during a week of camp, I probably shouldn't be but I am. When you remove yourself from the normal day to day distractions that so easily accompany life and our daily activities and place yourself in a position to hear from God, He will speak. Even it it is as simple as just a reminder that you need to be spending more time with Him. Or as it was for some of the students it may be a call to go and serve Him in another country at some later point in their lives.

God is always faithful to speak, when we place ourselves in the position to hear!

God bless and I pray you have a blessed week!

Sick Pets

My cat is sick this morning, and I don't know what to do...My *caring* husband doesn't seem to care, or be concerned his statement was "I've had pets who puked, or had diarrhea, he's a pet".

And yes I've had pets before, but I don't remember them getting sick, and I think I would want to do something about it if they were sick. I don't know what to do, I know that if we took him to the emergency room today it would cost us more than an arm and a leg, and then I leave early Monday morning and my husband probably had to work, and since he doesn't care I don't know if he'd do anything.

I just don't want the cat to suffer...and I don't know what to do to make it better :-( just my frustrations for the moment...