Lessons from my peeps at RFKC part uno

I’ve always felt and have been told to fear comfort because where comfort begins, God’s work ends. That if I am comfortable that means that I am putting God in a box.

The comfort I fear is a comfort that leads to apathy. However, the comfort I feel with the RFKC community is a comfort to be embraced and cherished. It is a freeing comfort, a comfort that allows me to check my worries, doubts, and expectations at the door so that I can love and live in the amazing presence of God. That is what I am looking for in all these other areas of my life.

I think a huge reason why I love working at RFKC, aside from working with awesome kids, is the people. I love the community there. It is simple yet effective. I don’t think that I’ve been in a group like this before. I love the people as individuals but I also think that what makes this group special is that we are all invested in the greater cause. There is a group paradigm of thought that emphasizes the importance of availibility regardless of the costs. They expect God to do great things through this camp but they don’t have to tell themselves that. The fact that God is going to work is just that, fact. It’s a given. They don’t have to do a lot of brainstorming to figure out how to optimize God’s will. They don’t have to do great big elaborate things to make an impact for Christ because He does that on his own and they understand that.

Furthermore, I love the people because they do affirm in me the person I want them to. I love that they affirm the person I want to become not because I think I am a great person but because I think that they are great people; people whom one day I hope to look more like because they live like Christ. Because what they affirm in me through their reactions and actions is a lifestyle that is saturated with love and faith that God will make himself enticing to people even if they don’t have great decorations at camp or a bungee jump instead of the rope slide. Their biggest concern is to love and love without restraint. The planning and programming is secondary to the act of loving. These are the people I want to be like because they exhibit the characteristics of Christ that are lacking in my life.