The Meaning Behind The Name

The Sweetest Field.

Sounds kinda funny right?

Like some insider thing that you aren't being let in on?

Well, today is the day that I am going to enlighten you as to the meaning of the name of this blog and my original intent in creating it. 

In the summer of 2001 I stepped through the opening gate of T Bar M Sports Camp and that week I fell in love. This place has been one of my favorite places ever for the last 11 years. I was a camper from 2001-2004, on high school work crew in 2007 and then FINALLY a counselor (we call them coaches) in 2009. My years at camp are some of my favorite memories. They mark times where I've seen lots of growth in my life spiritually. The last two summers I have wanted desperately to go back to camp, but felt God pulling me in other directions. In the summer of 2010, I felt like Jesus wanted me to go Brazil on a mission trip with my church and again in 2011 I felt that pull to missions and went to Uganda for a month. Both of those trips were so special and so great. I delighted in obeying God and knowing that I was not only haphazardly walking into this plan, but also choosing it. There was still a place in my heart that wanted to be back at T Bar M though. 

At the end of last summer, I went to visit my camp bestie, LeAnne, at camp. She was on leadership and I was soooo jealous. She got to spend her entire summer there! Well, during my quiet time one morning in the outback I just really felt God saying that if I wanted to I could go back for summer 2012. Well, that seemed a little ridiculous considering I would be graduating that May and had no idea what I was going to do for income and figured my parents would pull the plug right about then. 

The longer I prayed about it the more God revealed to me that way this relationship thing works. He just kept telling me that his desires had become mine and that many of mine had become his. That me wanting to be at camp meant he wanted me to go there. I also felt that he was saying that in the places that I had been obedient the last two summers and surrendered my own desires he wanted to reward me. It was a moment in which God wanted to say, "Well done. Here is what I think of what you have done." and then present a gift. I don't know about you, but my understanding of a gift is that it is meant to be enjoyed. Once I really landed on reapplying for camp, I just knew that this was a sweet gift from the Lord. That camp was like the treasure in the parable of the treasure in the field. In God's pursuit of my heart he had found this sweet treasure that he knew brought me joy and brought me close to him. He decided to hide it in the field in a place that only he would know. He knew though. He knew how to find it and when it was meant to be found again. So to me, being at camp is this sweet gift from my Daddy God.

Another thing I that I have continually felt God saying since I decided to come back to camp that it was just going to be an open heaven. That the field was ready for the harvest and that the fruit would blow me away. He wants to show me his goodness by letting me SEE the good work of his spirit this summer and then letting me partner with him in it. Its so happy and exciting!!!! I am so expectant.

The sweetest field. A gift, a promise, a mandate, and an invitation all wrapped up into one. It's gonna be one rocking' summer! There is already so much glory all over this!!!!