252-Sabbath Camp meeting style!

Sabbath is a crazy day at camp meeting.  We have huge numbers of people to feed, meetings to speak in, and people to greet!  Becca had asked if we could do worship at sunrise up on the hill next to this huge cross over looking the lake.  It is a beautiful spot and it was a wonderful team building idea for this amazing group of students, I will be working with all summer.  However sunrise, really?  That is like 6a.m. 

I agreed and we told the students to meet us in the shuttle at 5:50.  We could walk but that would add lots of time so we drove up.  As we were waiting for the last couple students to arrive we talked about how we didn't expect one of the students to be there.  Bradley.  Bradley was working for the book store this week and he would be working saterday night until 3a.m. or so.  He wanted to sleep in Sat. morning to get some sleep.  We agreed he didn't have to come.  After everyone else was there we decided he was a no show and headed up the hill to the cross.  Arriving at the top, we see  a car parked up there and Becca exclaimed, "Oh no someone else is here... Oh well.... it will be fine."  As we get out of the shuttle Bradley gets out of the car.  We hadn't recognized his car.  I can not begin to tell you how excited we were to have the entire team there.  We were so thrilled!  It felt complete it felt right.  Our worship was very special and a moment we will all remember!

Isn't the setting alone enough to make you want to worship.  The reminder of what he did for us and then the beauty in the nature he created for us.  What a place to worship him!  We did and it was an amazing experience because we were all there!

This day started right, continued to be a very blessed day.  We met lots of wonderful people, the video was well received and every thing happened. 

This day, the sabbath day ended with me going to sleep well before normal bed time, with my husband cleaning the kitchen, so I didn't have to face it the next day! 

This day was a day MtC!!!!!! I strongly believe it was because of how it started.  My view was of Him and his love, my view was heaven ward, and I was able to go through the day finding Him at every turn.  What a blessing these kind of days are! 

I also was reminded today of how important it is to our Savior that we all show up!  He wants us all, he doesn't want just some, just the cleaned up and pretty, he wants all of us to love him, to give our lives to him!  He wants all of us completely.  I understood why Bradley wouldn't be there.  It was a perfectly good reason, but I still wanted him to be there. 

How much more must our Savior rejoice when we come before him!