this past week has been.....words just cant describe. im in love with Camp Boom first of all and just everything that has happened this past week, it truly has been a reaffirmation of that Joyride i'd like to call my life. so as you know i served the past youth camp, Camp Boom, and man that started it all. that entire weekend showed me that God really has so much yet in store for me that it just blows my mind beyond proportions. all the moments i doubted despite those past experiences i've had in my faith, it really shows that i wasted my time doubting in those times of weakness. umm there is this program in my high school called "exploring childhood" where high school students help teach a PM and AM Pre-K class. thirteen years ago i was one of those Pre-K students and I graduated from Pre-K as the class of 1996-1997, a mere 5 years old at the time. a classmate this week told me that the teacher of the "exploring child" class has a photo album of every class since 1984. i visited that classroom yesterday and i saw for the first time pictures of me in school at the age of five. its hard to believe you were once a student of a school you are attending yet again, only 13 years later. two days ago i visited my old house in the south side of my town. its vacant as we are doing renovations. but my bedroom when i was at the age of 4, i went into that room and realized just how small that room is now. back then it was the biggest room on earth. i used to lie down on the floor and play with x men action figures and now i lie down on that floor and i can barely fit in the room itself. i had flashbacks of saturday mornings in that old house where i would wake up around 8am and charge down those steps, turn on the saturday morning cartoons of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, fix a bowl of cereal, and head to the basement to disturb my grandparents from their sleep. I got soo sentimental. now i look at where i am today. what i have experienced at Camp Boom, my position and the position i am striving for in not only the community but in God's eyes. And i am just amazed. Talk One was "God's Love and His Plan For Us." To me it was just a talk before, now it is a summary of my life. God's Plan. Who would've thought that the kid in those Pre-K pictures, playing with legos and blocks, would be where he is now? Who would've thought the kid who would wake up saturday mornings and wake up everyone in the house so he won't feel alone watching Goosebumps would be the person he is today? Who? God knew. He knew all along....He knew all along. A reaffirmation of my faith, of what in this world IS REAL. No more doubting. i know now for a fact. Shock and awe.
