Pray for the girls of Cabin 2

I just got back from a full week of camp with the teens from my church! This is the first year that I have been able to go as a counselor and I was nervous. I was praying that God would give me an easy group of girls to lead. I prayed he would hand pick them just for me and my co-counselor Bethany. I prayed that we would get along and no one would cause problems. I even prayed for my cabin to be filled with "church girls", the ones that have grown up in church and have gone to camp most of their lives and know the drill.

I ended up getting a mixture of a few church girls and some unchurched girls. I was nervous that they would not get along and I would be breaking up fights and counseling them on the necessity to be nice and get along. We had no issues! They were good girls! They stayed in the cabin when I asked them to, they were quiet (for the most part) when I asked them to be, and they got along and encouraged each other! Praise God!!!

I found that it was the unchurched girls that I fell in love with the most. They are so real and straight forward. They have questions and aren't afraid or too proud to ask them. They have struggles in their lives that I have never known and they need a real God to rescue them.

Please pray for them: Hannah, Madison, Lauren, Amanda S., Adrianna, Sydney, Lore, Raven, Rainie, Shelby, Amanda D., Kaylee, and Genasys. And of course my co-counselor Bethany! But especially Genasys. She broke my heart and really needs to know a real Jesus to show her that her Heavenly Father loves her, even though her earthly father and step-father are not what they should be.

ALMOST everyone is doing it

 I ran across a blog on CNN about the new trend in unmarried Christians. It's not really a new trend, we've seen it all along, but now people are broadcasting it. It is the sad fact that unmarried Christians are now reportedly having as much premarital sex as non-Christians.

What happened to "True love waits" or purity pledges that actually made a difference in how people acted behind closed doors?

It is no surprise that while premarital sex is on the rise, marriages are crumbling because of sexual sin, more kids are being raised by single parents than ever before and divorce for any reason is so high that it makes people question marriage in the first place.

God has called us to live above that. I know that it is not easy, trust me, I know. But it is not impossible.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/27/why-young-christians-arent-waiting-anymore/

I may be a little cynical

In today's world it can be easy to think that marriage has become an outdated ritual, especially given that very few even take it seriously anymore. With the lack of biblical marriages and the ease of divorce in our country it is just as easy to get out of a marriage as it is to get into one. Celebrities don't help this problem either. I bet you can name at least 2 celebrities that got married and then got divorced in less than a year, some even less than 6 months. Here are a few that I came up with:

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' famous 72 day marriage.

Sinead O'Connor, 18 days.

Ali Landry and Mario Lopez, 2 weeks.

Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander only lasted 55 hours.

 What is happening? Marriage used to be one of the most stable things in our world. People got married young and stayed married until they died. I'm sure there are reasons why this has happened, some of which include arranged marriages, cultures that did not allow divorce, and fear of social rejection. But now divorce is commonplace. I would be willing to bet that in the very near future people will have no hope of celebrating a 50th anniversary, or even a 30th.

What are we teaching the generations to come about love and marriage? Are we teaching them that love perseveres about all odds? Or are we teaching them that when things get tough it is best to just give up? Do we stick it out when things are not fun, even when choosing to love someone seems impossible? Or are we teaching them that you can easily fall out of love with someone and there is nothing you can do about it?

Some people are harder to love than others, but should that stop us? Remember that each of us is hard to love for someone, but don't you want them to love you anyway, even when you don't deserve it or when it is hard?

Our world is making a mockery of marriage, I think it is time for those that follow Christ to reclaim marriage for what it was meant to be, and stop perpetrating this ungodly practice.