Seasons Of Life...Summer

Friday Evening Day One...

We may look older and wiser, but to each other..we are all still in junior [high] school.


Friday night at camp we celebrated summer, it was filled with excitement and surprises; we celebrated a wedding as the brides of Christ. The decorations were beautiful and the dinner was delicious. Women came from all the different islands to celebrate the “Seasons of Life” together as sisters in the Lord.

These were our little sisters that joined us for the Friday night fashion show, our future women's ministry one day.

The beautiful Camp grounds became the perfect setting for an amazing weekend, there could be no better place we could have chosen. Beautiful Camp Homeland in Hawaii, pronounced Camp (Ho-me-la- nee) means Heavenly Home in Hawaiian. We were blessed to be ...

Surrounded by beautiful mountains.

Blue skies and palm trees.

White sandy beaches

Beautiful tropical flowers that smell so sweet.

The young women below put on a skit about the seasons of life, their skit was a reflection of their lives first as little children, teenagers, college students, becoming engaged, married, having children, midlife issues of menopause, hot flashes, or worst yet.. power surges [ugh].

If they only they knew, [smiles]… and finally their retirement years. They really did a great job and it was a joy to watch, laugh, as well as reflect.

The next event that evening was the fashion show; there would be different dresses shown that represented the mother of the brides, maid of honors, bride’s maids, flower girls, and guests.

The first model below was hysterically funny. She was introduced as wearing a ball gown ,and out she came with a dress with ORNAMENT BALLS sewn on her dress [ a true ballgown indeed].

She was adorned with a TOILET PLUNGER around her neck that represented a PLUNGING neck line. She also had two drinking glasses on top of her shoes as GLASS SLIPPERS, and finally a TWISTED FRESH BAKERY BUN, representing her hair in a French twist. {smiles}

I think this is where the Lord scratches his head, and calls for the head lady angel in Heaven , to explain this one to him!

As you can see on the photo on the very top of this post, I modeled a beautiful two-piece Champagne Vintage dress by Spencer Alexis… The skirt had a layered look with darker vintage lace on two of the layers, and on the other layers were hand-sewn twirls with Champagne colored thread and flowers with silver threads

The top had dark Champagne laced sleeves, and Champagne colored glittered sequences and a slit on the side with a seqenced flower with bow. I also wore an old vintage necklace with maching earrings, it was the most beautiful and comfortable dress I had ever worn in my life.


These were all the models, from the very young, to teens, young adults and older women. What fun we had together celebrating the season of summer. My dear sister in the Lord, Joy, blessed me as the new owner of the vintage dress I modeled. Thank you Joy I will forever treasure it, and will wear it once again when my husband and I renew our vows one day soon.

Next we went into the dinning hall to have some fresh fruit and of course what would a gathering of women be without chocolates. Therefore, we had some brownies and refreshments as well. Then it was lights out, but my roommates and I chatted until the wee hours of the morning.

My Thoughts and Reflections…

I am amazed at what women can accomplish together as sisters in Christ, what we can come up with to make a weekend so fun, enjoyable as well as refreshing and healing. I think the Lord just smiles as he looks down upon us from heaven and says… There goes my daughters againI wonder what they will be up to this weekend LOL.

The fru- fru and fluff, and all those silly stuff , yet he also knows we come as women from all walks of life, carrying similar, as well as different burdens, from brokenness, to hopelessness, loneliness, emptiness, and weariness.

Whatever the burden we carry, he knows we will bring it all to him in unity as we draw strength and support from one another. A time I know the Lord waits for, the moment he longs for when women gather in his name.

I have so much more to share about the Seasons of Life Women’s Camp, I know you will be blessed as I work my way through Saturday and share about my workshop “Seasons Of The Soul.”

Written By: Lorie A. Yocum © April 2009