We just got back from our camping trip to Santa Cruz. God did some wonderful things in all of us and we are all expectant of the new season ahead. Each day was filled with good God stuff and each night was filled with raccoons! (at one point there were 14 of them in the tree above my tent).

It is sobering to think we will be down there in 3 1/2 months. We are all challenged by this. However, where God guides, he also provides, so our task is to rely on God.

I am about to take my last class and am pressed to accomplish what I need to, but once again God reminded me through his word that he is the source of all my accomplishments.

Isaiah 22:8-11
Judah's defenses have been stripped away. You run to the armory for your weapons. You inspect the walls of Jerusalem to see what needs to be repaired. You store up water in the lower pool. You check the houses and tear some down to get stone to fix the walls. Between the city walls, you build a reservoir for water from the old pool. But all your feverish plans are to no avail because you never ask God for help. He is the one who planned this long ago.

1Peter 2:4
Come to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God's temple. He was rejected by the people, but he is precious to God who chose him.

Let us: ask God for help at all times being dependent on his ability to both test and rescue us from any situation; and remember to come to Christ (daily), since he is both living (not dead), and the cornerstone (the most important piece) of God's temple (you, me, us).