Camp Buckner address:

3835 FM Rd 2342
Burnet, TX 78611

Here at camp...things are great. Here at camp...there is not much I hate. Here at camp... things are sweet. Lots and lots and lots of food to eat (that has been a little upsetting to my tummy).

I already feel as if I have been here at Camp Buckner for a month, and it has only been one week today. The DOG staff (leadership) is well unified and are serious about the Word of God. I am thrilled to be serving along side of them for this summer.
The past three days I have actually done a lot of babysitting, but it has been very enjoyable and a great learning experience. I am still pursuing learning more about the family (which I have already had the privilege of with the Gerlt family).

More to come on my thoughts from camp...

I will soon (in two days) be leaving to spend the summer with these and a few other very special girls. I will probably have an even longer break between posts but hopefully will resume in the fall.

I have just recently collected a list of some of my favorite situations, and the list is as follows (BUT please take a moment to truly create in your mind the situation and give the Lord Almighty the glory for providing such wonderment in this world):

1. numerous people in unison silence (the saying goes.."as silent as if you could hear a pin drop")
2. being at the bottom of a hill looking up, not knowing what is on the other side, moving very quickly via car, airplane, or mule and suddenly viewing a vast open valley
3. cheesecake and strong coffee
4. sunshine with a quickly approaching severe thunderstorm (oh...how wonderfully silloutted the trees are against the dark, sunshiny sky)

any more that I need to add?...

While driving nonchalantly through Dallas this past Sunday, my eyes interacted in a well-liked pastime of reading church zingers that are posted in the letter board signs in front of the church, but to my eyes amazement, I encountered one of the most heretical statements in my twenty -two years of existence.
The sign read verbatim: "God does not forgive. God does not condemn."
I can possibly understand the second statement from the verse in John that states that Jesus did not come into the world to condemn the world. But where in Christianity does this church get the first statement? (By the way, the church was a Christian church. I do not remember the name, but it was something like Unity Christian Church or something else with the words 'unity' and 'christian' in it.)