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He Refreshes My Soul
Written by Mackenzie Lancaster, IRSM Summer Intern 2017
I have always liked being busy. In school I wanted to participate in every activity, sport, club, you name it. This love for being busy carried over to college, and the first two years I enjoyed it and felt like I was thriving. The spring semester of my sophomore year I went abroad to Chile, and stayed an extra month to do a campaign in Peru. Both of those experiences were absolutely wonderful, but when I came back I had a week at home before starting my job as a counselor for Honor Symposium, a two-week long academic/honors camp that Harding offers to juniors in high school. I worked two different sessions and when that was over I had just two weeks until school started.
The interesting thing about breaks in college is that they never seem to actually be a break, when you come back home after being gone so long everyone wants to spend time with you and catch up, which is wonderful, but before you know it your break is over. I went back to school still exhausted from my study abroad and my busy summer, but I was enjoying everything that I participated in, so I didn’t think it mattered.
Focused on the Spiritual Health of Others
This month, our theme is Women’s Spiritual Health. Before we get into the details of what that means and how we can grow in our own spiritual health, allow me to share some good news about how God has blessed me with the opportunity to focus on the spiritual health of some Honduran women.
This past weekend, more than fifty women from five congregations gathered for a time of pure delight at the first ever ladies retreat hosted by Honduras Hope at their facility just south of Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Ojojona). I had met some of these women three years ago when I conducted Ladies Days in two of their local congregations (Los Pinos and Santa Ana). It was a joy to see their personal growth and how God has blessed and grown their respective congregations, including new church plants, which were represented by some of the other women in attendance (Diamante and Tierra del Padre).
