To-Do List

1. Staff a local Vacation Bible School.

2. Visit with Grandparents and (lots of) out of town company.

3. Celebrate Dad and Mom's 25th wedding anniversary.

4. Finish putting stuff away from 25th anniversary surprise party.

5. Finish doing laundry from camp.

6. Journal.

7. Sleep. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

8. Recover from cold.

9. Write thank you notes.

10. Assess financial circumstances.

11. Find a job.

12. Buy a new car.

13. Have old car towed to junk yard.

14. Satisfy curiosity and allay concern of all cyber fans with a real-for-sure update as soon as possible.

Brief Interlude

I totally unintentionally woke my sister and I up entirely too early this morning...

By sitting up in bed, holding out my arm conductor style, and insisting, "stand up girls, we're going to sing!"

A pause followed while I oriented my mind--trying to figure out how my whole group of girls could have fallen asleep in the middle of my music class at camp, and why it was so dark...

Abigail too was trying to orient her mind. The plural "girls" puzzled her most so she broke the silence by responding confusedly, "There's only one of me."

Oh.

As you have perhaps guessed, staff training and the first week of summer camp is over. It was good.

We had twenty-seven campers who were exposed to the gospel and learned more about womanhood and Jesus' ways.

In case you were wondering, music class went very well, though "Miss Katie" was stretched to come up with hand motions, learn parts, memorize words and then teach a number of songs in a very short amount of time. Obviously, the aftershocks to my poor brain are still reverbrating in dreamland.

Speaking of which, considering the three weeks of camp, and VBS, and camp, and VBS ahead of me...dreamland is rather inviting!

Please keep praying for the children the Lord will be bringing across my path over these next weeks, as well as others I will be working with and mentoring.

This Crazy Life

It's getting up in the wee hours of the morning. It's pancakes for breakfast and pizza for dinner. It's complaining voices and happy giggles. It's salty tears, salty sweat, and salty swimming. It's rowboats and volleyball. It's songs and laughter. It's Bible study and hungry hearts. It's skits and hilarity. It's preaching and whispering. It's going to bed in the wee hours of the morning.

It's going and going and going until you can't go anymore...and then going some more.

It's where I'll be for much of July.

It's....summer camp!

Lord willing, I'll be sandwiching Vacation Bible School programs with two churches and a wide array of weekend activities between camp commitments.

(It's crazy!)

So if you miss me in July, see if it helps to visualize me applying band aids, explaining why mosquito bites itch, convincing eight year olds to stand in line, raising my eyebrows, teaching music, explaining why Jesus died, cleaning, monitoring bathroom runs, and smiling big.

Oh, and for realism's sake, don't visualize much sleep.

Better than visualizing, please pray for hungry hearts. Some who need to know why Jesus died. Some who need to know how to live righteous lives in this world. And some who just need to be loved.

It's important.