I just realized that most of my posts here have been poems. I'm totally fine with that, because I love writing, and poems are quick, easy ways to put down a thought or thoughts for the college student on the go. But now that I am on summer break, the "busy college student" excuse doesn't really work.
Right now I am three weeks into my summer, and I am in my first week as a counselor at Ponderosa Pines Christian Camp. I'll be here for like eight weeks, seven of which will be spent living in a cabin with about ten junior high/ high schoolers. Fun, right? I think so. It's hard to imagine how I'm going to make it through seven weeks of teenage angst, working pretty much 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, and not do anything stupid or screw up the life of some small child. But for some reason I have this really strong feeling that I can do it.
I've never devoted so much of my time and energy to one goal like I'll have to this summer in order to effectively do my job and make a difference in someone's life, but I think a passage a friend of mine shared yesterday was very helpful. It was 2 Samuel 24:18-24. It tells the story of King David building an altar to the Lord, which required the use of a threshing floor belonging to another man. When the other man offered to give David everything he'd need for free, David refused, saying, "I will not sacrifice to the Lord that which cost me nothing." In that light I've realized that to make it through the next two months I'm gonna have to make sacrifices that I normally wouldn't make.
I think I'm ready to do something I've never done before. Any free time I do have will be spent alone if at all possible. I have a sketch journal, my Bible, my computer obviously, and more free space for my thoughts and feelings to flow than I'll probably know what to do with. I've already decided to draw one sketch a day, coupled with a one-page journal entry about what's going on. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll have enough written and drawn enough to actually use for something. But I don't know, we'll see.
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