Amy

Soooooo looks like I'm gonna be all alone at camp. This is going to be so incredibly weird... and hard. I totally know God's got something up His sleeve though. Stayin' positive. "Lean not on your own understanding."
Story time!
Okay so my second summer at camp there was this girl. I'm not gonna use her real name so we'll just call her Amy. ;) So about my 1st week of camp that summer, Amy was placed in my cabin. She seemed polite enough, but very distant and almost cold in the way she interacted with the cabin leaders and other campers. After a day or two we started to get concerned about her behavior. She hardly ever smiled and never laughed. Oftentimes she would start crying during chapel, and one of the other cabin leaders would have to take her out so she wouldn't distract the others. Once, as the camp director was sharing the Gospel message, she was heard repeatedly whispering, and almost reassuring herself that she "didn't need God". After taking her out of chapel because she was crying again, the other cabin leader asked if she would like to ask Jesus into her heart. Her answer was a violent, harsh "No!" We started to wonder if there might be something seriously wrong, like demon possession, or the influences of demonic forces on her mind. That night, the four of us who were her cabin leaders gathered in prayer, asking God to free her from whatever this evil force was that was causing her to be so against Him. I also texted many of my friends asking for their prayers. The next night, after being taken out of the chapel again for crying, the cabin leader who had taken her out came into the cabin after chapel with tears in her eyes. She told us later that night that Amy had asked Jesus into her heart. We cried and hugged and praised God. He had answered our prayers and it was such an incredible feeling! The next day Amy was a totally different girl. She smiled and laughed and played with the other kids and bonded with the cabin leaders. There was a total transformation in her behavior! After that night she never cried in chapel again.
I don't know where Amy is now. She never came back to camp, but I like to think that she's living for Jesus. That she's trusting Him no matter what's going on in her life. I don't know if she'll ever know, but it was through Amy that I first saw the incredible power and love of God. Frequently she crosses my mind, and every time she does, I send up a prayer for her, and thank God for showing me how His work through a little girl made a big impact on my life.