Boot Camp (my version)

This weekend, I'm going to boot camp. At least, I'm going to my version of boot camp, which means Vulnerability Fest. This is where I'll be: http://www.accd.org/index.cfm/pages/48

The website doesn't explain very much or very well. I went to the informational meeting and I'm still not entirely sure what's going to happen, which is adding to the boot-campness of it for me. Here's what I know: a) I'm going at the urging of a friend who went and found it both freeing and empowering; b) I'm expecting that any freed and empowered state would make me a better soldier in this age-old war; c) I'm realizing that I'm really scared.

I'm thinking, fairly or unfairly, that people are more likely to pray for someone in actual boot camp, featuring actual physical injuries and actual godless intimidation tactics. Or maybe someone with cancer. Or someone without a job. You know, somebody with "real" problems.

What I'm hoping for is compassion.

Please pray. I know He hears. And I know that He never hears without taking action.


"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."

~~ Ephesians 3:14-21