Let me see you sizzle!!!!

Hey everybody! So, this past weekend I had the honor and the privilege of counseling an amazingly awesome child at Comfort Zone Camp in Northern NJ. This is a camp specifically designed for grieving children that have lost either a primary care giver, sibling, or a close friend. This is a truly amazing organization and I feel really blessed to be a part of it. They are always looking for volunteers and you don't even have to have had a close personal loss to apply. All you need to have is the right motivation and attitude and you're all set. To learn more please visit:
www.comfortzonecamp.org!!!

I have been sincerely touched and forever changed for the better by those brave children. They have taught me to really appreciate my family and friends so much more than I have been. It's amazing how much we take for granted on a daily basis. Over the weekend I really learned to stop and smell the roses, to make sure to go out of my way to tell my family and friends how much I care, and to not be so hard and judgemental of people, because you never know their life situation. Most importantly I learned that life is not guaranteed to anybody. None of us are promised tomorrow. I am slowly learning to live each day to the fullest and to never take the people that I love and my good fortunes, blessings, talents, abilities, and gifts for granted. I hope that you learn or at least try to do the same, because I promise it will change your life in a way that you never thought possible! I'd like to share with you a passage from a devotional my mother gave me recently called, Streams in the Desert for Graduates by L.B. Cowman.

"You can see the rain, but can you also see the flowers? You are suffering through these tests, but know that God sees sweet flowers of faith springing up in your life beneath these very trials. You try to escape the pain, yet God sees tender compassion for other sufferers finding birth in your soul. Your heart winces at the pain of heavy grief, but God sees the sorrow deepening and enriching your life. No, my friend, it is not raining afflictions on you. It is raining tenderness, love, compassion, patience, and a thousand other flowers and fruits of the blessed Holy Spirit. And they are bringing to your life spiritual enrichment that all the prosperity and ease of this world could never produce in your innermost being."

Have a blessed day!


P.S. Let me see you sizzle is part of the best camp song from the weekend! You have to see the dance! Good times...