2005 Memorial Day Retreat: Day 1

First day of the retreat and it's been a mix of good and bad. Registration this morning was a pain, mainly because they made changes to the room asignments last minute. Basically, all the work I had done the other night was wasted because they didn't even bother looking at the corrections.

I spent a lot of time running back and forth trying to get stuff fixed and people situated. The situation got really bad in the afternoon when Dan was looking for his room. He kept on getting the run around from all these different people until we finally found his keys.

After lunch, we played ultimate. At first, it threatened to rain and eventually it did. It was probably a bad idea to play in the rain.

After dinner, we watched a classic fight between Ali and Wepner. We didn't get a chance to finish watching the fight, but it was a really good fight. It was really close and it looked like Wepner was going to win.

We had to leave the fight early to go to session. Reverand Milo had a great message about faith. Basically, faith has two components: believing that God is able and God is willing. Our faith usually breaks down in one of these categories. The other great point is that a lot of times, God puts obstacles in our way to test our faith. The question is, how many obstacles are in the way. It's a matter of our faith to persevere and push through.

So it's a good start.