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Current location: Shade of a tree in the mountains.

I'm at a Fuge camp, which is more or less "church camp. (For lack of a better phrase)

I'm acting as a leader for for the first time, at the first camp I've ever attended (yes, I'm a deprived child) so it is two firsts rolled into one for me this week.

I really enjoy it though. I've learned much how to lead and to listen (the two are very closely related) and plenty about my own faith.

Each student is allowed to pick their own "tracks" which is more or less the activity you wish to do after lunch. There are actively based ones: volley ball, jewelry making, etc.) and then class room based ones (apologetics, world religions, prayer etc.)

The two that I ended up being placed in were peer ministry and why we believe what we believe. The second day upon walking into peer ministry I see a torn out page from the bible laying on the ground discarded.

At first I was ignored it sort of, though I did wonder how it came to be torn out of the bible, but made no real fuss. But I got bored a little and picked up the page to see which one it just happened to be.

It was a page out of James and I read it wondering how much a nonbeliever would learn from this singular page, and all that jazz.

Not much honestly, but then I thought about all the other countries in the world and how hard it is to grow in their faith because of restrictions placed on them in their government or their regional location.

I bet someone in that circumstance would have been overjoyed to come across a page of the bible like I did. Even if it did happen to be the genealogy of Abram or Lot!

They thirst so strongly for the word of god that they are content with so little. And yet, I with all my things am not content with all my different translations of the bible, and it's fancy cover and devotionals etc.

I just wish I had a thirst. I'm too passive in my faith. I feel like this week, with all the trials that I've faced and that I will continue to face, the bible studies and the worship, that passiveness will begin to be broken down and built back up into an active mindset.

Those are my prayers at least!