Sip's Insights About First Event

The first youth week at Lake Junaluska was awesome! I believe I learned just as much from the speaker and the kids as they learned from all our skits and silly dances. There were only a few holes, such as a definite absence of excellent volleyball skills and a certain traditional song that kind of slipped our memory! But overall I think both the staff and kids got lost in the grace of God. I also learned that these kids become more than a mass of youth to you. There was one girl named Ashley, and she was awesome.

I met her in the lunch line, where she brightened my day by telling me I was the bomb.com(her word for cool) The next day she came with some of the Shack staff to get ice cream at the Kern Kafe, telling all of us that we were cool, and so we were the bomb.com. Saturday night I heard that she had been taken to the hospital, and it was in that moment that I realized how precious a person could be to you after only hanging out with them a couple of times. I realized that these youth would become my heart this summer, and that their love would share the light of God with me just as much as my love would share the light with them. Ashley turned out okay, and was back Sunday morning. My heart filled with joy at her healing, and I realized how great our God is!

Aynslee (aka SIP)