On the drive home, I pondered all the things I’ll miss about Colorado and Camp IdRaHaJe… and all the things I wont miss! ☺ So…thought I would share a few. ( a dear friend Kristie blogged a similar post about her time in India… not trying to copy her, but i found it interesting,so… kudos to Kristie)
I Will Miss:
-beautiful mountains and scenery
-rushing rivers with fresh snow melt (aka not brown water)
-my narrow way family/ co-workers
-all the wooden cabins with amazing views and huge windows
-the quiet and lack of tvs and other noise
-the pretty much perfect, cool, dry weather
-showers
-the amazing environment- encouraging notes and words, hugs, smiling faces, living life with other people seeking after Christ
-going somewhere just about every weekend and seeing an amazing part of CO and having a good time
-always traveling and making plans with 11 other people
-being able to hang out and do adventurous stuff all the time
-hanging with kids and hopefully impacting their lives in a positive way
-the smell of the woods and vanilla trees
-incredible thunderstorms with the most beautiful lightning imaginable
-weather changing every 20 min
-incredible sunsets
-people who love the outdoors and doing stuff outside all the time
I will not miss:
-my uncomfortable plastic mattressed bed
-walking 50’ to the shower
-dust being everywhere and my skin being dried out all the time
-not being able to take a bath and always having dirty feet
-not being able to cook whatever I want whenever I want
-driving 20 min to the closest grocery store
-paying $3.75 to wash a load of laundry… but it never came out very clean
-always traveling and making plans with 11 other people
-fearing that I will get eaten by a mountain lion or bear every time I walked out of my cabin at night
-eating meals on a tight schedule
-required lights out at 10:30pm.!!!… that’s just when the creative juices start flowing! ;0 at least for me…
So, for the most part the good outways the bad. Nothing was ever unbearable… just not the best at times. But i’ve been reading this book called the Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne. It’s an incredible book that i highly recommend that you read if you have not already. It’s very thought provoking and calls us as Christian to live lives of true love, to everyone, not just the people we like or are comfortable with. Its a call to a different kind of life, especially challenging for the typical, comfortable American Christian. But such a good thing. I’ll include a quote here just to give you an idea of what the book is like.. hopefully it will encourage you to read it for yourself.
“We need converts in the best sense of the word, people who are marked by the renewing of their minds and imaginations, who no longer conform to the pattern that is destroying our world. Otherwise we have only believers, and believers are a dime-a-dozen nowadays. What the world needs is people who believe so much in another world that they cannot help but begin enacting it now.
Then we will start to see some true conversion vans- vehicles that run on veggie oil instead of diesel. Then we will see some converted homes – fueled by renewable energy- and laundry machines powered by stationary bicycles and toilets flushed with dirty sink water. Then we will see tears converted to laughter as people beat their swords into plowshares and weld their machine guns into saxophones, and as police officers use their billy clubs to play baseball.”
Conversion is not an event but a process, a process of slowly tearing ourselves from the clutches of the culture.
I just watched Moulin Rouge last night for the second time. It had been a while since I had seen it and in some respects the Bohemians reminded me a little bit of Shane Claiborne and this counter-culture lifestyle… only he encourages a lifestyle that’s maybe a little less experimental. 
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return”. -Moulin Rouge quote
I want to a revolutionary.
