Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Day 2)

(In these pics: The Water Bottle Club. The We Wish We Were In The Water Bottle Club. Leaky bucket ract in station recreation. HC. and T show their muscle by the canoes.)

What we did today:

theme I (that means energizers, music, and keynote), chillin' with our encounter group, workshop 1, station recreation on the lawn, free time, theme II, workshop 2, a totally superific scavenger hunt, devotions

Today we talked about what it mean to be signed and sealed by God:
Here's what we think:

Signed – To be signed is to be approved by God. It means that ‘I am who I am’ and God loves me for me. To be signed by God makes me feel: accepted, whole, special, proud, unworthy, relieved, privileged.

Sealed – To be sealed is to marked by God as God's very own. (You know in Pirates of the Carribean how official letters and promises were marked with wax and sealed with the impression of a ring or king. God does that - makes a mark on us saying we are from God.) If I am sealed by God, it shows God's commitment, promise, we are bound together.

Words of wisdom from Holly. "Something that is sealed is ready, totally complete. It has everything in it it needs. God makes us ready to go into the world."

And God says, ‘I will be with you…’ (Exodus 3:12)

Where we Saw God today: In people's enthusiastic spirit and people having fun, in Matt & Brian's Song x 3 (Matt and Brian are two enablers who sang for us during theme II), in the cross on the hill on the scavenger hunt, in sifting through the grains of sand in the spirituality workshop and knowing that God is in the details.

What we most want to remember about our day:

FUN: scavenger hunt (We decorated a plastic shoe box. Then we ran all over campus following clues and doing crazy things to the stuff that goes inside. In the end, we filled our box with things to go to a child who needs school supplies and toys. We decided that we're delivering ours to the Ada Jenkins Center. We're pretty certain we were the best and therefore we all won a sundae on the way home.)
MEANINGFUL: God loves us and always will. God loves you for who you are - not what people tell you to be. When asked who God is, God says, "I am." That makes me think that God is everywhere and too big to be defined. You can be what you want and still be loved. Nothing separates you from God’s love.