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Thursday, December 4, 2008 @ 9:59 AM
Hello Central 2 (:

This is Joanc posting!

If you read my blog you'll know I'm reading a book, One Child by Torey Hayden.

It's a true story. Jayna lent me the book today (:




Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation -- except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare -- and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together -- an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.


It's a good book. At least, it made me think about some stuff.


So anyway, I just want to share about what I feel about camp. (:

Basically, I'm feeling quite tired, emotionally. And I've been yearning for a breakthrough in my spiritual walk with God for quite some time now. And with that, will come a breakthrough in my entire life. I breakout of this aimless life because God isn't in the centre - I can't get anything done right without God being the focus.

I know it's coming, the breakthrough. I can really sense it very very strongly. I know that it's gna be a big big breakthrough, one that will take me to a whole new level. And I'm looking to camp to receive what I need from God - Refreshment & renewed strength. Also, a relighted fire & passion. It's there and I know it, but I need to bring it back to life. (:

So I've thought about that; that's what I want for camp.

How about all of you? I think you must have had thought a little about camp.

Well, don't go for camp without expecting anything.
If you don't expect, you don't get.

And if you don't try, you don't receive either.

I've long learnt that standing with your arms hanging by your sides during worship, or shutting out during sermon, isn't going to get you anywhere with God.

Expect something.
I guess this post came a bit too late, but I hope you'll use the next 2 days to think, about what you want from camp. What do you expect out of it?


I went to a camp once with zero expectations. I thought God would still move his magical hands and work some miracle, do something in my heart.
But I got nothing.

So, expect (: Yearn, long for a touch from God. That intimacy with God is priceless. That security in life, and the joy, only God can give you that.

Love you all. (: