I’ve been wanting to write this since June. Yes, June. Leave me alone, I’m a busy mom. 😝

While it’s been on my heart this whole time, hearing how Hurricane Helene has ravaged N Carolina made me want to share my own little story about this beautiful state and the very special people there. My thoughts and prayers are with them. I know God is too. 🙏❤️

Back in June when I drove up to N Carolina to bring Lia to Camp Kahdalea @twofuncamps – her first sleep away camp – I was still feeling a tad unsure about the whole thing. See, I had never done a sleep away summer camp. I went to sports camps where you go every day for a few hours but then you go back home. Or I was in Costa Rica visiting my family the rest of the summer. The whole sleep away camp thing is very American; since it’s not something people do in Costa Rica I wasn’t raised that way; it was never on my radar and it never crossed my mind that I would send my kid to one. 

So by the time I even CONSIDERED it, it was already March. And we struggled A LOT with deciding whether or not to let her go. I finally registered her on May 10. (Mind you, the only dates that worked for us were June 6-11.) She was leaving in less than a month . . .

But God is so good and He is a God in the details . . .

So I drive the ten hours there, we spend the night, then wake up to take her to camp. We walk to the car as we’re leaving the hotel and an orange butterfly appears and flutters all around my mom, like in her face. She didn’t even realize it was a butterfly; she swatted at it to make it go away. LOL But it didn’t. When she realized what it was she stood still and it landed on her! It then landed on me! Then on Lia! We were in awe. It felt like such a special moment. The butterfly stuck around, fluttering all around us for several minutes! It would stay on our hands looking at us, as if looking right into our eyes. It was uncanny. We couldn’t shake the feeling that this was special. Supernatural even. It felt like God sent us one of His little creatures as a sign to let us know it was going to be okay. Lia was meant to come here. Mom and I felt this peace over bringing her to this camp. 🦋

Thank you, God. Thank you for being a God in the details. For sending us this little yet meaningful sign to give this mom peace over leaving her little girl in a place far away from home. No feeling goes unnoticed for our wonderful and loving God. It was just so beautiful to feel like He, the magnificent and omnipotent God, was watching over us and wanted to comfort a worried mother even with it being over something so small (in the grand scheme of things). But nothing is too small (or too large) for our God. 🤍✝️🕊️

We pulled into camp and met some members of the Trufant family who own it. They are so special and wonderful. We immediately hit it off with one of the wives; she’s Hispanic too. While every other parent quickly dropped off their daughter and left, mom and l ended up chatting with her for more than an hour – in typical Hispanic fashion.😆
We❤️NC