A new Bible

Have I told you? I was given a new Bible for my internship....Nothing against my old/current Bible...it's pretty awesome itself. For the past 7 years I've been using a parallel Bible, which has 4 translations (KJV, Amp, NASB, and NIV) side by side; two versions are on the left page, the other two on the right page. It's really nice to be able to cross-reference each translation with the others...to get a richer understanding of what's being said. But now, I have a new Bible. This new Bible is nice. I mean, it's really nice. It's leather-bound. I've never had a leather-bound Bible before. It's got red-letter text in it. I've never had a red-letter Bible before. This Bible has annotations for practically every verse, it's got character profiles, it's got pictures, it's got diagrams, etc...the list goes on. I've never had any of that stuff in my other Bible (except for a few annotations about wording every once and awhile. The only thing this didn't come with was a cheap price....It is so nice I almost didn't want to open it; I was a bit reluctant at first. Nevertheless, I know how much people crave Bibles in other parts of the world and so I know the great duty I have (and delight!) of engrossing myself in this Bible with all of its aides. I'm so very thankful for my new Bible. God is so good in providing for us, isn't He?

Perhaps there's a spiritual analogy between my old Bible and the Old Testament and my new Bible and the New Testament, but I won't divulge any of that reasoning at this point. If you can think about it on your own and understand, awesome, but I'm kinda tired right now, I need to go fill up on some energy and stuff....you know, read my Bible.


God bless,
DMS

1st Camp of the Summer

This passed Sunday thru Tuesday I was at "Prarie Camp" with 1st and 2nd Grade students from NMC. I was a co-counselor with a member of the Prarie Camp staff. Considering they were my kids though - being from NMC - I took charge of most everthing and delegated when I thought best to my co-counselor. He was a great help. Sometimes I needed a little rest from having so much fun, and so I would have him take 9 out of 10 of the kids to the restroom while I waited behind with that one kid who can never tie his shoes, put on his shirt, find his socks, drink enough water, eat his food fast enough.....Essentially I really enjoyed being able to wait around with one or a few of the campers at a time to invest in them more intently.

Needless to say, camp was a blast, and the word on the street is that the kids had just as much fun, if not more :) I'll probably find out through the grapevine from my superiors whether or not that's true, but the consensus so far is that I personally handled the situations I encountered well. Pray that they continue in their young walks with Christ....by the way, that doesn't mean immature walks. I heard one of my boys pray a prayer so genuine, so pure, and so eloquent it struck me with awe...I'll have to tell you about it later. I was blown away.

God bless,
DMS