Back from Camping...

Well for me it was a successful camping trip, even with rain, a mattress that kept deflating, and my non-stop headache. I got to catch up on some of my reading PLUS my youngest not only finished a book she has been trying to finish forever but read another entire book! My favorite moment of the camping trip was stopping to talk to Kristie in the car and having Sarah in the back seat ask us to quit talking because she can't read when we are talking and she is trying to read! The weather was so so - some hot days (we only went to the beach once), one canoe outing but we had lots of fun on it, some rain which meant we spent the next day drying out everything, worry that the van was broke (we had an interesting and loud noise erupted from it during the night but thankful it was nothing serious and we got home okay). took the dog for lots of walks so I got some exercise in along with my reading and a camp fire every night. Funny story is out canoeing and there is this person on a seadoo just tearing up the water, going around and around all alone. I was thinking how boring it must be to be out on it by yourself. As we got closer we realized it wasn't some young man goofying around but a grey haired elderly lady, who stopped and asked if we wanted some waves - of course the kids said yes and she gave us waves before she headed back in.

Books read:
The Da Vinci Code - Heather (completed Sunday night at 10:00 by flashlight in front of the camp fire because Kristie wanted me to hurry up and finish it so we could talk about it).
It's Not About Me by Max Lucado - Heather (good read and will most likely read it again)
Keeping Quiet - Sarah
Vampire Beach Bloodlust - Sarah
Can You Keep a Secret - Kristie, Heather (who burst out laughing on several occasions)
I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince - Kristie
The Preachers Daughter - Heather
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey - Kristie (finished on the way home)
Books attempted but gave up on:
Wuthering Heights - Kristie and Heather (we both thought it was too weird)
The Secret of the Stonehouse - Sarah (2 attempts at reading it both times said she didn't like it)
Books started but not finished:
Love Worth Giving by Max Lucado - Heather ( got to about chapter 6 - very interesting book)
Unstoppable Force - Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind - Heather (into the last 1/4 of the book, another interesting though provoking book)

"The local church is to be God's expression of his radical commitment to change. God is about changing history, or perhaps better said, about making history. His ultimate goal for the church is not to follow cultural change, like a water skier behind a boat, but to be the dynamic, catalytic community that brings change in a world that is so desperately needs the God of change.

We must never forget that we serve the changeless God of change. God is not statisfied with the status quo. He is not trying to keep up with culture. His greatest ambition is not for the church to become a great imitator of generational trends. He is the God of creativity, the God of imagination, and the God that chose - through his Son - to ignite a revolution. " Unstoppable Force