Camping Readiness

Ok, so everytime we come up a few weeks from the Kingdom Kampers' church camping trip, I promise myself that I am going to have it all together by Thursday evening so that when Friday rolls around, all I will have to do is load the car, get Taylor from school and off we go!

Well, yet again, it is not so. What is it with me and this aversion to camping readiness?!?

Here I am, blogging, when I should be packing, shopping for camping rations, and making sure that our camping supplies are stocked and ready to go.

It reminds me of how many of us, myself included, approach our relationship to God sometimes. We promise ourselves that we will spend time in prayer and study of God's word, and in listening to His will for us, yet when it comes down to it, we are "blogging,'or whatever distraction you may insert for blogging at that particular moment.

I can't wait to go and spend the weekend with my family in a tent, and I know that to make that time together all it can be, I need to have spent time preparing for it properly. It is quite difficult to show up for a weekend outside with no sunscreen and no bug repellent.

I anticipate with great excitement spending eternity with my God, my Father. But, I don't want to leave this earth knowing that I haven't spent all the time I possibly could knowing and serving Him more before I get there. Somehow I feel like that would be like going camping without the suncreen, the bug spray, the tent or, even worse, the marshmallows, Hershey Bars, Graham crackers and firewood.

So, happy camping! (Anyway, that's really all we're doing on this earth isn't it? Camping out, getting ready for the ultimate reunion!)