It makes me feel positive when things like this happens. I had recently sent a camp application to a family who has since started going to another church. In years past their kids had gone to camp with us. With the camp application I wrote a note saying that even though you’re at a different congregation, we’d love for you to come back to camp with us. I got a call from them today. Looks like their kids will be coming back to camp with us. They said they probably wouldn’t have been back if it hadn’t been for me sending them the application. Many times I don’t know if I am making a difference in people’s lives. This is one of the few times when I feel that I am.
I am a big fan of Diff’rent Strokes. Remember in the later years when they introduced Mr. Drummond’s new wife and her son Sam? At first they were trying to redo the big brother/little brother interaction between Arnold and Sam, just like it had happened years before with Willis and Arnold. It was probably good idea that ‘Strokes got cancelled when it did. Or else Sam would have grown taller than his big brother Arnold and it would have just looked weird.