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Everything here has been so busy it seems! Wow! The past few days have been work, time with God, and hanging out with amazing people. Saturday morning Beth B. and I ate breakfast and went and visited Courtney in the Craft Shop and made jewelry. That was definitely exciting. After work a huge group of us, like 18 people, played a few rounds of Mafia. It was hilarious! I got shot by a bow and arrow, Matt got blown up by fireworks, Taurence got stabbed in the head by the pick in his hair, haha. Sunday was probably the slowest work day ever! But, it was so much fun! We made an assembly line and passed everything 1 by 1 from trash and tray all the way to dish. We got a PAID 45 minute break because there was nothing to do. Then between 3 and 4 Lindsey and I sat around and read a Bible someone had left and talked and stuff. The rest of the night was similar, everyone just standing around and talking and goofing off. Last night after we all got off work a bunch of us hung out and played around on instruments. Two guitars, keyboard, a makeshift drumset (haha, pots and pans, milk crates, and a Coleman cooler), and my violin and a saxophone. It was awesome! I miss playing like that, just improving, from the heart. I guess what got me too was that people were jamming around and WANTED a violin. That never happens. It was so much fun! We're going to be doing a lot of that this summer! Today, was just work from 6am-2:30pm and a nice hot shower. This afternoon and evening there's going to be some amazing God-time going on. I'm thinking of walking around to the big boulder around the bend. I love it there. It's out by some cabins, but it's not really far from the staff dorms. It's really big and you have to climb up to the top, but once you're up there, you can see most of the grounds, and there's a BEAUTIFUL view of CCY, too.
Oh, I also got some stuff from my friend Mike, from high school. They're going to be starting an online magazine called WithoutConcept.com. It's about how people, through our perceptions and experiences, form opinions and conceptions of what we think God is or what He does, etc. Therefore, in doing so, we tend to put Him in a box, where He is safe and predictable, nothing out of place. Well, of course, we know this is not true at all. Mike sent me an email and asked me to be one of the writers of WithoutConcept.com, and I'm really excited about that. I miss writing, too. We'll just be writing about perceptions of God and the things of God that can sometimes be misconceptions. Please please PLEASE be in prayer for this as we get the site up and running in just a couple of weeks!
Thanks for all the prayers and messages! Keep 'em coming! I love you all!