My name's Jason. The first man camp that I went to was in 2021. It took me a while to get over the fear of going to camp. And when I got there, I was very grateful that I did go. I remember sitting in the woods on the Saturday when we had our workbooks going through the prompts in the book.

And the prompt was, let Jesus guide your walk. Take a walk through the woods and let Jesus guide your walk.

And I had been struggling for a while of, you know, completely believing in Jesus.

And I remember saying to myself, you know, completely believing in Jesus.

And I remember saying to myself, you know, what's my hang-up with letting Jesus be my higher power?

Because at that point, I was 17 years sober and had just a higher power that I chose to call the Spirit of the Universe. that I was okay with using that and it kept me sober to that point and

I'm walking through the woods and I'm walking in the creek and the directions in the workbook said let Jesus guide your walk and I noticed that every step I was taking, I was making sure

that I wasn't falling walking through this creek. And I just kind of thought, you know,

if I'm letting Jesus guide this walk, then I shouldn't be watching every step that I take.

So I came up out of the creek, started walking through the woods, and I started just following this trail

of leaves, and it led me straight to a Jerusalem locust that had these long thorns on it that

just reminded me of, you know, the crown of thorns that Jesus had when he was crucified.

And I just broke down and started crying right

there at the tree and it was just kind of like, you know, if I'm looking for signs, I don't know

how much more obvious, you know, he's trying to make these signs. And, and, you know, I walked out

of Man Camp in 2021, fully believing that Jesus is my higher power.

And, uh, and I came back the year after in 2022 and was baptized at man camp and, um,

came back in 2003 with my uncle and a group of guys that I knew personally and just

watched them have the same types of experiences that I did.

And I'll be forever grateful for what those camps do and what is provided for people to grow spiritually when they come to that place.

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The podcast that's around to encourage you to make aggressive moves in your life. This is not the nice happy thoughts podcast. It's not the make you feel good podcast. So I love making people feel good and I love happy thoughts. It's really a thing that's designed to get you off your keyster to make a change in your life, to do something you're not doing right now, to do something that other people aren't doing that is a healthy

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