Amazing . .

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I was gone from Monday to Saturday night. And it was the most amazing trip. Shannon and I were paid for (without knowing how). Four buses of Jr. highers, high schoolers and college students went to Bandon Oregon for Face Down. We were only a couple minutes from the beach and Lake Bradley was right there for us to go to. Shannon and I spent a couple of days being loners because we didnt know anyone who was going other then two leaders. But it got better after the second day and we started talking to more people and hanging out with some people. So that was good. The second night of camp was one of the really emotinal nights when everyone broke down and started crying. Danny spoke about meeting with God eye to eye on this trip, and people were crying, and praying, and on their knees. I dont think many of us had seen so many broken people in one place. One of the staff members later told us that some of their staff couldnt hold them selves together during the talk either, and many of them had been crying. The rest of the nights a lot of the people from camp shared their stories and we did a lot of worship. And then the last night of camp, always the big night, they took down all the lights, all the sound system, and there were no microphones. They set 250 chairs up in a giant guitar circle and had a platform in the middle. Three guitarists wandered around the circle playing music while Danny spoke about salvation. And many people dedicated their lives to Christ that night, all 250 of us recieved bracelets that night and then were asked to write a letter to God, the all consuming fire. And to write about all the things we needed to leave at the camp, the things we didnt want or couldnt take back home and the many things we needed to let go of. And after writing that letter we were asked to go outside to the bonfire and throw that letter into it and then to worship with everyone around the bonfire. That week was really intense. But so amazing. And so many things became more clear, and I can honestly say I left so much of my past behind, and so many things I wanted to keep holding onto, or things I had thought I had forgiven people for that I just pushed deeper into myself without realizing it. I gave up a lot of it.

And now Im home.

And Rikki is home. :)

And I havent felt this good in a long time.

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Tiff