Georgia On My Mind

Tomorrow morning I will be packing up and heading to Jasper, Georgia for four weeks.

"What the heck is in Jasper, Georgia Brynn?"

There is a beautiful Young Life camp called Sharp Top Cove in the small town of Jasper and I will spending four weeks nannying four children(ages 10, 8, 6 & 4). I met this family two summers ago when I was serving on Summer Staff at another Young Life camp in North Carolina. I pretty much fell in love with the kids then so when this opportunity came about I was so excited. I will be spending my time just hanging out with the kids, mainly the younger two. I am really excited because I will get to really observe all that goes into Young Life camp. Instead of serving campers, which is what I have done in the past, I am going to have the chance to witness hundreds of high school students hear the gospel each week. I also get to see an amazing team of Work Crew, Summer Staff and Assigned Team members serve Christ and serve these campers.

My pursuit right now is Christ and deepening my relationship with him. I am also really trying to focus on becoming a stronger witness, woman, daughter, sister, and friend. In my favorite book Blue Like Jazz (I know I mention it all of the time), Donald Miller talks about loving yourself and loving others. He says that in order to fully "Love your neighbor as yourself" you have to first and foremost love yourself. This is my biggest struggle. I am my own worst critic. Miller says that when you are able to really love yourself you can then love others and others can love you. I know how to love others and this is actually something I pride myself on, I love loving on other people. Now I am just charged with growing stronger as an individual and as a follower of Christ.

I am going to take a break from Facebook while I am there, but I will be trying to update my blog pretty frequently just with what God is teaching me and probably really great miracles I will witness each week.