Loving

For those of you who don't know, I'm volunteering at a Catholic camp for the summer, ministering to youth and families, working with horses, doing other random jobs, and having a blast. :-)  It's amazing how beautiful life can be when you decide to let God have control.  I've made some amazing new friends on staff, reconnected with old ones, and grown closer to God already.  It reminds me of this quote from our Pope:

"The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover." ~Pope Benedict XVI

You really begin to understand this quote when you give yourself in service to God and others.  You have to decide to love if you're going to stay up till 2 a.m. in the morning cleaning so things are ready for the next day and then get up at 7 a.m.  You have to decide to love when you have a million skits to plan and perform to entertain families and your creative juices have run out.  And you have to decide to love when you're ready to drop dead from exhaustion and you have another event to run to.  You may not feel it, but you decide to do it anyway.  That is when you realize what it means to love others.