It is hard to believe that June is already here! This month is a little bittersweet as it should be the month that Camp starts. We feel like we should all be making target runs for bugspray and packing our trunks!
When we started reading the book of Mark back in April, we didn’t know that we wouldn’t be having Camp this summer. It just felt like the next right thing to do at the time. Now that we know we won’t be following our usual rhythm of Camp this summer, it seems all the more appropriate to be reading through the four gospel books together. In June we are going to read Matthew, and in July we’ll read the gospel of John.
Meeting on the Worship Rocks for Morning Watch, reading the Bible each day, and sharing cabin devotions each night are a part of the fabric of Camp, and they are also part of the fabric of our lives with God. We cannot even imagine going a whole summer without observing those spiritual practices and rhythms! We’ll be reading our Bibles every morning for Morning Watch, and we hope you will be, too. These practices are so much richer when shared in community with DeSoto girls. (And that includes DeSoto girls of all ages and life stages.)
The disciples came up and asked, “Why do you tell stories?”
He replied, “You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight.
Matthew 12:10-13
“Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I’ll be there.”
Matthew 18:18-20
