Real independence comes through living in The Way of the Cross. Yesterday, I posted on my week at Youthfront Camp speaking to a campful of high schoolers. Here is one e-mail that came from a parent of one of our campers;
"Just wanted to thank you for the wonderful experience you are giving my precious girl, Sarah. She just called to tell me that, although she has worshiped God all her life, she has never truly felt the spirit of the Lord move in her until this week at Youthfront. I cannot tell you what great joy it brought me to hear her sound so full of life and love. Thanks for all that you do. You truly make a difference in the lives of those you work with!"
I also recieved a handwritten letter four pages long from a young lady who I had several short conversations with during the week. She wrote about her story in light of the Way of the Cross, the way of Suffering and Loss and the Way of Hope. A little over a year ago she witnessed her father killing her mother and had to testify against him. A deep theology of the cross revealing the identification of a "Crucified God" (Luther's term) with the despair and brokenness of humanity helped her make meaning out of something that defies anything good and whole. She saw how she has a God, who through Jesus Christ entered into the darkest of our realities to suffer with us, for us and on our behalf.
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