Beautiful
Well my latest camping trip started out very different than all my other trips. Well somethings were the same, the scrambling to make sure that I had the tent, the stakes (which I forgot), the stove, sleeping bags, sleeping pads (yep, I am getting older and it’s no longer a want but a must), food etc. This trip was different because as I packed I had to save room for one extra seat. I clicked Carter securely into his car seat in the car and we headed to the mountains and I knew this trip would be different. No longer would it just be Mindy, Sitka (our dog) and I, but now Carter was also with us. Carer joining us caused me ask some questions that I had never thought much about before. Can a baby wear mosquito repellent? How am I going to make sure that he is warm . . . The list could go on for some time, but the bottom line was this-I was doing what I had done for years but things were different now. While preaching from Mark 4 I talked about how Jesus had his eyes on the horizon, “Let us go . . .” As Christians I wonder how our lives our different than before we knew Christ. Once Christ impacts our lives we keep living and doing only now the questions are different. We should no longer be thinking about what I want, but about others. Going camping with my son for the first time has stirred my heart and mind to be asking “new” questions. I have been a Christian for years, am I still asking the right questions or have I slipped back into the norm. I know for me that camping will never be the same again and I would have it no other way. I also know that once Christ freed me from sin to live I have never been the same, and I want it no other way.
