the green spot blog

Text says: "This is Sam riding Soren" It has been a whopper of a day. Yesterday we sent out an email to our members and 2015 campers and we got 40 registrations before the day was out! That's incredible! As I write this we're at 402 registrations which is just under half of our total capacity for summer campers. It's very, very exciting to see the registrations roll in. I get asked sometimes by folks if the economy ever impacts our summer registrations or if we ever get worried when we see the economy slow down. It's hard not to think about it - there's a lot of families out there that are hurting and affected by Alberta's economy. It easier to say than live out - but we trust in and serve a God that is bigger than our economy. When we get into years when finances threaten what we do - we have to practice looking up to God and saying, "We don't know how, but we believe that You will see this through". That wasn't meant to rhym...

Asking for help is not one of my favourite things to do. Independence has always been something I've been good at. Until now. You see, seven weeks ago I got my heel bone and achilles tendon reconstructed. It's a pretty big surgery that results in about six months on crutches. The surgery wasn't a surprise and I had thought that I had prepared myself for the first leg of the journey. I had someone coming to check on me but in my mind - I was going to do this on my own. I, Jogee, was going to remain independent! Boy oh boy, was I wrong. Everything was more difficult; making meals, feeding my dog, moving laundry. Everything. Was. Hard. I quickly discovered that there would be no getting through this without help. It's one thing to ask for rides to and from work or take Koda for a walk but I found myself resisting from asking for help in all areas. Areas like - cleaning my house and grocery shopping. It became hard for me to ask for help in these things because they...

I have a couple "jokes" or funny comments that folks hear me say sometimes around here about trust issues. The first one and probably the truest one for me is Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. You know, those cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies but when you bite into them expecting yummy, sweet chocolate - you get this odd texture and a sweetness that has no business impersonating chocolate. I don't trust very many cookies that may claim to be chocolate chip and are really fruit. I hate Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. They give me trust issues. And really, anything that looks like something that it isn't can give me trust issues. Proverbs 3:5 It reminds me of this time when I was a kid and we had a friend from Australia staying with us for the Harvest season and I made a jam sandwich for school. All was well and good, nothing even looked off when I was at school and bit into my sandwich...our Aussie had switched my JAM sandwich for a VEGI-MITE sandwich (think molass...