Guidepost - Evening 3

I headed to this evening with my friend Greta because she had invited me back to her house after the day was done.

We arrived at almost the exact same time as my friend Mylie and her sister and headed in where we saw my other friend Milly. We sat on some hay-bales for a while, just having a little chat and some of us eating, before we headed into the main tent to hear our speaker for that day.

The speaker was a lady from a very local church, just up the road I think, and I have to say, she was pretty incredible. Her actual story was quite short, it was about when and how you hear God, whether it be at a huge great big Christian music festival or when you are just standing in a tiny shower cubicle.

But then we were allowed to ask her questions, and although it took a while to get them going, soon people were shooting off some very difficult questions which she answered really really well. Like last night she was asked her favourite colour (green), and the her views on homosexuality (our God is a God of love who wouldn't ever discriminate against anyone if they shared true strong love towards someone else, regardless of the gender). She was then asked why God, who is meant to provide the people come to him allows people to starve, to which she said that he doesn't allow people to starve, because he has given mankind everything that they need, all of the food they need for everyone of earth. Is it God's fault that we don't share it equally? I then asked quite a similar question as to why God allows disasters like terrorist attacks to happen, and she said that God doesn't disrupt the nature of the human kind he created. We have made these problems, and we are to fix them. She said that the only time God disrupted the nature of the earth was during the story of Noah's Ark, after which he promised never to do it again.

She was then asked whether she thought heaven and hell were specific places, and if they weren't then what were they. To that she said that she didn't think they were physical places, and she didn't really know what they are. But then she said something that I thought was quite poignant. It was a theory of hers and she said that the day when everyone acts resembling Jesus, or acts in the image of Jesus, then we will have heaven on earth and that is what heaven is.

She was asked a lot more of very difficult questions, all of which she answered incredibly well, just like all of the ones above, but sadly we had to move on to the activity for the evening.

The activity this evening was a treasure hunt all the way around the town in which the guidepost site is situated. This year, the theme was the story of the lost sheep, so all around there were pictures of sheep with different names in different colours and with lots of different patterns.

I remember doing a very similar hunt last year which was very special to me, so I was really excited for this one. We got into a group of 8, named ourselves The 1976 (you know, like the band, The 1975), and set off around the town. It was actually a lot of fun, because we would just be walking normally and then someone would scream because they had seen a sheep and we would all go running towards it. Admittedly, we weren't very good and only found about half of the sheep, but as the others in my group said, we found fun instead! We listened to music and sang as we walked around, making complete fools of ourselves, but it didn't matter. And believe me, even you would've been impressed by our rendition of Bohemian Rapsody, dispersed occasionally with yells when people have found sheep.

 We then made it back to the Guidepost site and handed in our slightly pitiful attempt, and then went a lay down in the main tent, just playing with all of the snap chat filters and making funny videos of ourselves before I had to head out because my mum was waiting to collect me.