Ash & Evergreens

     Last weekend, I went to Clemson, SC to visit one of my friends. We went to a Clemson football game, went to a corn maze and did fall things, and just spent good quality time together. But God did things in my heart that weekend that I did not see coming.     Since August, my heart has had a hard time re-adjusting to life. I went from being a super tender-hearted kid who constantly wore her heart on her sleeve and got a hurt a lot to a kid who had a hard time caring at all, not having empathy towards much. I was tired of hurting, so the best way to fix that was to put up walls and not care at all....so I thought (which is so unlike me). I was having a hard time finding that balance between letting things roll off my back and still be intentional and tender-hearted.      Well, God works in his way and his timing and I didn't know that he was going to use my weekend in Clemson to shift my heart and mind. As I have been praying for an adjusted ...

     I worked for CentriKid camps this past summer and it was a summer of a lifetime for many different reasons. I got home just yesterday and I am already missing my camp friends I made, but as I retell stories to my family about all the adventures that happened, I can't help but think of all the growth that came with it.      Camp was exhausting. We did 9 cycles of camp in 8 weeks and I remember after the first couple of days of camp thinking, "my legs are dead. I no longer have legs." So that was the beginning of physical exhaustion but mentally, spiritually, and emotionally I was ready to go. I wanted to do everything I could to help set up camp. It was like Christmas morning. And then we got our first round of campers and my world was rocked. That week was my first week as a staffer and I experienced the highs and lows of it. I had begun to feel a little of the fatigue that comes with being a staffer, as I already said, but the others s...