Retreat.

It's been such a great few weeks :) It's crazy how God will answer prayers. I'm really excited to see what He's going to do in my life, and how the things He's doing now will affect me later.

Last night the Fuel team had our retreat of sorts late into the night. It was definitely a blast. Now if you know me, you are quite aware that running is not my spiritual gift - but I love a good game of Capture the Flag. I was stunned by how many people didn't know how to play or had never played before! Lori, Elinor, and I did a pretty good job at taking defense; although the other team was good at hiding out behind trees on our side without being seen. There was a lot of yelling, laughing, tripping, and running into things. Good times. I was quite proud of myself (and will probably brag about it for days) that I captured a flag without being seen at all. I'm none too small, and was wearing a bright yellow shirt, while still managing to sneak around the backyard, having no idea where anything was, and run back to the other side. Quite an adrenalin rush, the last few yards before I was considered "safe"!

I got schooled in the art of smores making, having never done that before. I'm still quite grossed out by the fact that you take sticks - from the wilderness, and put food on them to eat. It was good though; Elinor and Cameron had to save me from my marshmallow en fuego. Davey wrapped us up with some acoustic worship songs; it was great.

My favorite part though, had to be the glowsticks. We all went out into the middle of the backyard, took an unsnapped glowstick, and spread out. At the call, we all lit our glowsticks and were to be quiet for a few moments. I saw us all standing there, barely visible, shining a light in the darkness. I'm wasn't really aware of my surroundings after that, and prayed for our team. Being able to "shine a light" has been something I've been trying to do for so long.

Today I got up at 5am to babysit. It's naptime right now, and the house is peaceful with 3 sleeping babies and 1 quietly playing toddler; I'm pretty sure I could fall asleep myself. But I should probably take this time to clean up and do homework. The living room is an explosion of child, and the kitchen is the remnants of lunch - almost a 2 hour event to get the whole fiasco finished. An essay on Animal Farm is wanting to be done, and a baby needs to be fed soon.