Currently Reading Divide and Conquer: Op-Center 07 (Op-Center) By Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin see related

It smelled o.k. and it looked o.k., but it was not o.k! You know how when meat goes bad it has that jelly type substance on it that makes it look like the jelly around SPAM? Well, this chicken did not have the SPAM quality to it and I only ate two pieces with my Raman noodles.

For the last three days, I have been recuperating from food poisoning and it came from bad chicken! I have to tell you that I have NEVER been so sick in all my life. I probably threw up 20 times - 12 of those times be the dry heaves. My gut is so sore and if that wasn't bad enough, halfway into the heaves, It started coming out the other end! I found myself on the floor of the bathroom in the middle of Romania unable to move and telling the LORD that I had nothing else in my stomach and crying out for help. It was pitiful. I had the hot sweats only until I would throw up and then I would have the cold sweats. It was crazy!

As I have been sitting around praying and thinking about the last couple of days, I have been wondering what the LORD was up to. I believe that He knows all things and that there is a purpose behind all things - if we will just trust Him and as I have been thinking, I am wondering if He took me out of the way to allow our intern team to assume the leadership of camp. Brian Schlarb (an intern who is thinking of pursuing a degree in youth ministry and is a good leader and great influencer) and Sarah Mezaros (who is not only my right hand but a good leader in her own rite and who has been to Romania a number of times and loves the children) did a wonderful job in my absence. Not once did I think that camp would be less without me.

They intern team came home today with stories of how the LORD worked and as I sat on my bed and they sat on the floor for the better part of an hour retelling me the stories of the week, I was glad, in a strange type of way, that the LORD took me out of the picture to allow them to see that they could lead and that the LORD could use them in direct leadership roles.