Our theme for camp this year is “Deal or No Deal: Making the Right Choices.” In order to prepare myself I’ve watched a couple of episodes of Deal or No Deal with Howie Mandel in full OCD glory.
I’ve got a short 10 minute devo to do on Tuesday night in front of the entire camp. Preparing a devotional which would be relavent to everybody from 4th grade and up can be difficult. Tenatively I’ve decided to incorporate “How to Save a Life” and the song explaination. And yet I don’t want to put the whole camp on guilt trip while I tell them that sometimes everyone acts differently depending on what situation they’re in (i.e. being a Christian only on Sundays….). The teens I know do it, and nothing is ever said about it.
And so there’s my delima. I’m sure I’ll be incorporating some of the same verses already spoken about in the days of camp previously….(Joshua 24:15, Matthew 6:24).
A friend of mine and I were playing the what ever happened to game the other day. As it turns out those people who I went to camp with some 15 years ago had made some bad choices in life. I guess they never took to heart what was said at camp that year we were there. Those promises and commitments didn’t last all that long. And it is a real shame. We left camp in 1991 and 1992 thinking we could conquer the world for Christianity’s sake. And yet some of us failed. What went wrong? Could it be that those people who failed didn’t get enough support at home or at our own local congregations? Or maybe those who failed just simply made the wrong choices in life with no one to blame but themselves.
I’d be amiss if I didn’t mention that I am slightly disappointed about things that I could have done this week. Somehow I feel segregated and have been made to feel inferior to those around me. They say “Sure, Jeff, you can help out,” while at the same time criticizing me privately. I guess I shouldn’t feel that way, but in reality it hurts.