Extraordinary Summer

Summer 2009 was the last summer that I will experience in my life basically because in the next summer vacation, I will be having my on-the-job training or OJT, then after that is my graduation year (hopefully I could find a job as soon as I graduated), so I tried really hard to spend this summer to the most I can.J

At first, I was so bored. I told my mom that this will be my last summer but how come I don’t have any thing to do or any place to go. I even envied my grandparents because they have their batch reunions, batch outings, ballrooms, etc. but as my summer goes, there were many activities that made it EXTRAORDINARY.

Right after the AY 2008-2009, not planning any outings or even hanging out with my college friends to celebrate the end of our sufferings for the semester, I excitedly went home to Quezon province to relax and to be with my family. The first few weeks in Quezon were really boring – surfing the net all day, watching TV or layout-ing/editing whatever in the afternoon and watch tons of movies and series the whole night. But when April 2009 came, my summer escapade begins!

I attended many activities of my community, CFC-Youth for Christ also known as YFC, I became part of our sectoral assembly, I was given the chance to deliver a talk in a Kids for Christ assembly and in other YFC activities, I attended youth camps, I went to places to serve and meet new people, I even attended activities with my family and the like. But the most exciting part of my summer was when I attended the Discovery Camp last May 23-24, 2009. In that camp, I feel so blessed by the Lord. He just tapped and affirmed me through the talks, activities and some camp materials that surely made my summer. In that camp, I was also given the opportunity to know the new generation of YFC-Quezon and to bond with them in two great days. I won’t forget the last activity we did in the last talk. The speaker asked us to write in the paper folded in boat shape that he gave all the hindrances in our life to serve the Lord fully and in the other side, he asked us to write our conviction to commit ourselves again with Him. After doing so, he gave us permission to open the paper and the message in that paper made me cry. It says, “You may be unworthy… but you are NOT worthless. Let me love you. –God”, it was amazing because in that camp, I feel unworthy of all the things He’s giving me, in serving Him and in all aspects of my life but God just embraced me tighter and He never lets me go especially in that point of my life. That activity struck me most and as I’ve said, it made my whole summer.

On the other hand, this summer was the best summer that I and my family bond a lot. Even if we are both active in our community, Youth for Christ and Couples for Christ, we never forgot to spend time with each other doing nothing. But I won’t give those nothingness in the world and I would always choose to spend time with them in dong nothing because I know that in that NOTHINGNESS, I will never fail to feel the love and care they give.

TRULLY, this summer was the BEST summer in my life and these people were really EXTRAORDINARY.

“I am SAVED to SERVE; I am HEALED to HELP.”