To All of my Mid High Friends,
Both campers and counselors alike, I wake up this morning and share your feelings of sadness and disappointment. I was excited about eating flapsticks and corndogs, pixystix and icecream. My heart raced at the thought of angle ball, gladiator games, worship, and camp fire. I know many of you, like me, feel that Cowen is a holy place where "God Speaks", as the sign going into vespers says. This is absolutely true, but the same God who speaks at Cowen is the God who is present in your homes, families, towns, and churches. The God who speaks is the God who listens, and is also the God who saves. I am thankful this morning for God's mighty hand of salvation both eternally, but physically in the midst of this week's storm. Although we might not be able to attend Camp Cowen, God is with you and me. Although you might be without power or water or other necessities, God is with you! My friends who would have been at Camp Cowen this week, I encourage you, if you have life's essentials, share them with others, offer the love of Jesus with open hands to your neighbors. This, in God's sovereignty, was meant to happen for some reason, and I pray that God speaks to each of us in ways more powerful this week than he might have at Camp. Although we might miss the physical location of Camp Cowen, please do not miss out on the God who is everywhere in equal portion, ready and able to save through His Son Jesus Christ. God Speaks! Everywhere, in the quiet after the storm, God Speaks! If you are safe this morning reading this, join with me and the Psalmist of Psalm 150:6 and say "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord." And remember that in your fear and helplessness: Proverbs 18:10 says "The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run to it and are safe." Praise God! And in your weakness and pain run to the only one who is mighty to save!