The Summer of Discipleship

I entered into this summer with a lot of expectations about what my job at Riverside would look like, and I am both humbled and amazed by how those expectations were proven untrue, and how God has been revealing the true way that he has called me to serve here.
This summer, as a member of the discipleship team, I meet with, pray with, and encourage 12 of the female senior counselors on staff. Each of the women I meet with have been incredible blessings to me in so many different ways. Each is such a wonderful new friend and sister, and I feel like I learn as much from them as they do from me.
It has been wonderful! I love the one-on-one time that I get with them, and I find lots of joy in doing small, behind-the-scenes work here. (We clean toilets twice a week! :D ) It is a completely different side of working at camp. None of the campers know me, and I am hardly ever up front doing anything (skits, songs, playing piano, etc...). I instead get to watch camp happen, and encourage and pray over what I see. I get to lead bible studies for the counselors when the campers are at 'big fun challenge'.
I feel like this has stripped me of a lot of pride that I didn't even realize I took in myself here. It has always been easy in the past for me to 'rate' the job I am doing here by feeling good about how well I did in a skit, or how great my share was in chapel, or how well I played and sang as I helped lead worship. Now that all of those opportunities are gone, I have had to recognize a new set of gifts that I have been given, and focus on allowing God to cultivate those things in me. It has been a hard but good growing experience with lots of victories and mistakes too.
I can't believe there are only 3 weeks left of camp after this! Wow! What a fast and wonderful summer this has been. I look forward to seeing what else is ahead :D

Welp...

This is a second shot at blogging for me. I was a xanga fanatic for...years...and have been away from it for a couple of years now. So I say...here goes!