You know you're on custodial when....

- The best part of you day is a toss up between the 5 minute nap on a wooden bench or the moment you realized God answered your prayer about how to fix the carpet spot cleaning vaccum! :-)

- You realize that you spent thirty minutes coming up with your best two parts of the day just for your blog while doing the almost mindless task of cleaning the carpet! lol

And here's some others off the top of my head:

- You read the labels on every garbage can very carefully to make sure it's not recycling!

- You have this feeling that won't go away that God is teaching you humility.

- You feel on top of the world cause you get to carry "the keys".

- You expend mental energy thinking about what to think about.

- You can walk into any bathroom for any gender and not feel odd.

- You sing at the top of your lungs while carrying garbage over your shoulder on the way to the dumpster to keep you from going insane or dropping over from exhaustion. hehe

I hope that brought a smile to your face! I find it amazing how much God can teach you when you're willing to learn - or even when you're not. lol. There won't be an update about last week tonight because I'm going to bed. Yup, you heard me - 10 pm and Courtney's going to bed! I'm for 8 hours tonight and that gives me only a few minutes.

I did want to give you a short update on this week.

Yesterday:
I tried to do PQT's (personal quiet times - time with God) three times. The first time one of my previous campers came up to me and invited me to go to the fishing dock with her. I decided that I could give up "my time" later for God so that now I could glorify Him by reaching out to this camper. The second time I tried and fellow SSTer came up and talked to me for 45 minutes. I decided that God just wanted me to reach out by listening. The third time I almost fell asleep but forced myself up because it wasn't "me time"! All three of those attempts happened on "my swing" - my favorite spot at camp for four years. That happened in the morning and afternoon and was a nice reminder that God can use me to glorify Him and encourage others no matter what I'm doing. The cool thing is though, He continued to use me! That night I listened to and prayed with someone else, listened to and advised someone else and led another staff friend through a particular cabin devo I gave to my campers a few times last year.

Today:
Today was EXHAUSTING!!!! I have a huge amount of respect now for Jessie (the head custodian). Today I decided that instead of letting her finish up the little things she usually takes care of after telling us we're free to go - I followed her. I couldn't believe all the "little things" she does that most people don't even know about. We worked straight from breakfast to lunch and then from lunch until we had to open the canteen (snack shop) and then when that finished I was asked to take Canteen inventory which I did. Then I met up with another previous camper for 20 or 30 minutes at Rifelry and then I had about 30 minutes to try to do PQT's before dinner. After dinner we cleaned, went to Chapel and then went back to clean until about 9pm. WOW long day. I'm exhausted, my hands are dry and beginning to blister, I'm sore, I'm dirty and I smell pretty bad.... but I'm definitely not complaining because God is teaching me so much. I don't feel as close to Him this week per say (that's my fault) but I'm learning alot! He had SOOOO many reasons for putting me on custodial this week. The only problem is that with a lack of freetime I'm not getting anything done from my "To Do" list - ike!

A note to peoples: the "s" abbreviation that shows up in some of my posts doesn't mean anything. I'm not sure why blogspot is replacing some of my words with "s" but it is....

Much love - thank you all for praying! More support has come in - praise be to God - but please pray that that would continue since I'm still low. Also pray for rest and time for all of us counseling soon to prepare. Along with myself I'll be helping two other people prepare so please pray for that. Also, please continue to keep last week's campers in your prayers. Some of them have contacted us and we are trying to remain connected to some of these kids.

Much love, your sister, daughter, niece, granddaughter, friend,
Courtney Lynn