I Heard Your Hair Stands on End Before Lightning Strikes

OOOOOH BOY! Tomorrow is the big day! We, Legacy staff, leave for Oklahoma City tomorrow to have our first Legacy camp of the summer. Words cannot express how excited I am, and how much I anticipate the thundering Kingdom to explode and shine in glory. I feel a strong sense of calling- this is where I am supposed to be.

Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen:

to loose the chains of injustice

and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free

and break every yoke?

Is is not to share your food with the hungry

and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter--

when you see the naked, to clothe him,

and to not turn away from your own flesh and blood?

THEN YOUR LIGHT WILL BREAK FORTH LIKE THE DAWN

and your healing will quickly appear;

then your righteousness will go before you,

and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

Then you will call and the Lord will answer,

you will cry for help and he will say:

Here Am I.

Best Summer Job Ever.

Yeah, so, being a Legacy intern is pretty much the best job ever. Basically, my job as an intern is to help plan for and put into action this year's Legacy camps. I get to learn new and crazy dances for the dance class I'm teaching at three of the camps, recruit people to be volunteers and teachers, and just generally be surrounded by awesome people all the time. I work from 9am to 3pm for five days out of the week, and every morning someone is assigned to give a devotional first thing in the morning. Yesterday morning, it was my friend Amanda's turn, and she had us pick a passage of scripture to memorize, which, by the way, was glorious seeing as I can't remember when I've actually gotten to choose what I wanted to memorize myself, and NOT for a grade! I chose to memorize Psalm 121, a song about God's never-ending love and protection and providence. This morning Calvin Wang brought the devotional, which was an exercise called Psalm writing. Each of us had a sheet of paper and picked a short passage to write at the top. We then passed all our papers to the right and continued whatever the person before had written. This was repeated until everybody got the paper with their original passage at the top. This is my completed, collaborative psalm:

Everything exposed to the light becomes visible,

for it is the light that makes everything visible-

wake up, O sleeper

rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you.

Let the light wash over you and cleanse your soul.

For it is only through the light of Christ that we are cleansed.

Let the light brighten the dark places of your heart 

so that you may become a bearer of light.

Keep not your own light hidden but let it shine forth in the glory of Christ.

In the glory of Christ, sing out to the nations!

Sing out the wonders of the Lord, our greatest hope,

our brightest light and guide.

Arise and bathe in sunlight.

Go and dance beneath the meteors

And Christ will shine on you.

Mmm hmm. I bet you wish you could have a summer job as cool as mine. Peace!