Mushroom trips and other fun stuff.
I was thinking about posting some really off the wall personal ads today, but life has a way of interrupting things, so maybe in a few days.
Any way here's what has happened.
Last night, after I dropped my friend Abby off at her place after the employee dinner about six thirty, I went home and just bummed around for the rest of the night. Yet for some reason I felt a really heavy burden for her and really felt off kilter for the rest of the night and most of today.
It wasn't till dinner I found out why.
Last night a fellow co-worker of mine at June Mountain, Dustin a 18 year old rental shop employee was getting ready to leave for home the next day. But before night could turn into to day. The craziness began. It wasn't a night full of drunken behavior that often accompies the last night of an seasonal employee's season. Instead it was something much more serious then having a few too many beers.
What happened will be a night that almost everybody involved will remember for a very long time. It seemed that the night was going on rather uneventfully until somebody noticed that they hadn't seen Dustin in a while. When they went and looked for him they found him, but not in good shape. Bleeding, cuts and abrasions all over the place is how they found him. A phone call to 911 quickly followed and the next thing they knew they were at the hospital's emergency waiting room waiting to see if he would make it out of his mushroom induced state.
In those long tense moments Abby, Rachel, Billy (Dustin’s) boss, and two of Dustin roommates sat in shock taking in fact that the young friend could end up dying before the night was over. Each one realizing that it could have easily been one of them in the Emergency Room instead of the waiting room. (Even though they weren’t doing any drugs that night or would ever) During the time they sat in the waiting room each one faced questions of their own morality and questions about God, justice, fairness and life and a really big one if I was to die today do I know where I would go?
Questions most young people don't think about until times like this.
For most of them the questions they asked themselves that night will not be answered for a while, for a night when a buddy almost died it will take time for the shock to pass and the true healing to begin. But only if they realize that they only way the peace that so many people are looking for is through Jesus Christ and not the drugs and the drinking that can be so prevalent in seasonal workers.
It was a sobering day among the June Mountain Staff and the people that sat and waited for Dustin to pull out. I wish I would have been at the hospital, but it was not meant to be. So instead my roll is going to be to listen to them, talk with them and share Christ love with them and not judge them at all and tell them Jesus died for them and that he loves despite everything that they do and have done, even the druggies, the lost, wanderers and seasonal workers.
All I know is that God is going to use this night to turn their lives upside down and open their hearts to his love.
So my friends just pray for Dustin's healing because he's out of the hospital and now home heading for rehab. And for my friends Abby, Rachael, Billy and others who waited in ER waiting room to come to know Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
It's going to be an interesting next several days to say the least.
I let you know what develops for I have a heavy burden for Abby and the rest of the June Mountain employees. Because I know big life changing things that only come from God will happen this season at June Mountain.
So more updates as they become available.
Any way here's what has happened.
Last night, after I dropped my friend Abby off at her place after the employee dinner about six thirty, I went home and just bummed around for the rest of the night. Yet for some reason I felt a really heavy burden for her and really felt off kilter for the rest of the night and most of today.
It wasn't till dinner I found out why.
Last night a fellow co-worker of mine at June Mountain, Dustin a 18 year old rental shop employee was getting ready to leave for home the next day. But before night could turn into to day. The craziness began. It wasn't a night full of drunken behavior that often accompies the last night of an seasonal employee's season. Instead it was something much more serious then having a few too many beers.
What happened will be a night that almost everybody involved will remember for a very long time. It seemed that the night was going on rather uneventfully until somebody noticed that they hadn't seen Dustin in a while. When they went and looked for him they found him, but not in good shape. Bleeding, cuts and abrasions all over the place is how they found him. A phone call to 911 quickly followed and the next thing they knew they were at the hospital's emergency waiting room waiting to see if he would make it out of his mushroom induced state.
In those long tense moments Abby, Rachel, Billy (Dustin’s) boss, and two of Dustin roommates sat in shock taking in fact that the young friend could end up dying before the night was over. Each one realizing that it could have easily been one of them in the Emergency Room instead of the waiting room. (Even though they weren’t doing any drugs that night or would ever) During the time they sat in the waiting room each one faced questions of their own morality and questions about God, justice, fairness and life and a really big one if I was to die today do I know where I would go?
Questions most young people don't think about until times like this.
For most of them the questions they asked themselves that night will not be answered for a while, for a night when a buddy almost died it will take time for the shock to pass and the true healing to begin. But only if they realize that they only way the peace that so many people are looking for is through Jesus Christ and not the drugs and the drinking that can be so prevalent in seasonal workers.
It was a sobering day among the June Mountain Staff and the people that sat and waited for Dustin to pull out. I wish I would have been at the hospital, but it was not meant to be. So instead my roll is going to be to listen to them, talk with them and share Christ love with them and not judge them at all and tell them Jesus died for them and that he loves despite everything that they do and have done, even the druggies, the lost, wanderers and seasonal workers.
All I know is that God is going to use this night to turn their lives upside down and open their hearts to his love.
So my friends just pray for Dustin's healing because he's out of the hospital and now home heading for rehab. And for my friends Abby, Rachael, Billy and others who waited in ER waiting room to come to know Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
It's going to be an interesting next several days to say the least.
I let you know what develops for I have a heavy burden for Abby and the rest of the June Mountain employees. Because I know big life changing things that only come from God will happen this season at June Mountain.
So more updates as they become available.
posted by UrbanShocker7 @ 10:39 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:54 AM,
Tara Ulrich said…
WOW! God definetely has something in store for Abby and the rest of the June Mountain staff. It is so amazing what God can do in our lives in the midst of tragic. And so my friend, I want to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Douglas John HAll. I think it really could come in handy during a time like this. It is found in Hall's book "God and Human Suffering:An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross." "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain; it is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world (P.162-163)."
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