Memaw Summer Camp - Last Day

Fishing in a bucket

"Jesus looked at them intently and said, 'Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.'" (Matt. 19:26 NLT)

Lesson #8 - Jesus can do anything!

From A Chancellor Ferry Tale:

Not all bugs had it so easy, though. As a youngster, Norman, unwise to the hazards of human-folks, had lost his right foreleg in a slammed screen door on Mrs. Adkins’ back porch and was pitched headlong into the School of Hard Knocks. He soon learned that single-legged meal trapping was pert near unmanageable, and simple things like walking through tall grass or creeping up a church wall took him twice as long as the other little mantises. And to make matters all the worse, instead of being sympathetic to his dilemma, the local bug-boys poked fun at his awkward prey-catching and called him “Preyless” Hyde.

Because his slowness made him customarily tardy, by the time Norman reached the windowsill, Pastor Titus was concluding the morning message. The preacher pounded the podium with his fist and bellowed, “Beloved, we may be troubled on every side, but we refuse to be distressed.”

“Amen!” shouted Norman, but the humans didn’t seemed to notice.

 “We may be cast down, but we will not be destroyed,” the preacher thundered. “Yes, like the Apostle Paul, we know what it’s like to go hungry, but whether in lack or abundance, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us! Men and women, boys and girls…”

And bugs, thought Norman.

 “Poverty must not paralyze God’s people from taking the hope of the Gospel – the Good News of Jesus – to a hurting world. As the prophet Isaiah heard the cry of the Lord the year King Uzziah died, oh, people of God, hear His voice calling today, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’”

Norman volunteered quicker than an American Revolutionary minuteman. He waved his front leg enthusiastically and cried, “Here am I; send me!”