A new batch of campers arrived at CampHOPEforKids today. This is the crazy day. All the adult volunteers are new and trying to get their heads wrapped around their jobs and locate their supplies and find the camaraderie among the peers with whom they share tasks. The rhythm of camp doesn't start on the first day, but by tomorrow....all will be transformed into a well-oiled machine.
The layers of responsibility will be a dazzling display of coordination. Maybe it would best be called choreography because it's as beautiful as a dance. Campers will be joyfully following their counselors from activity to activity, some arm in arm with a new buddy. There will be laughter and songs and energy abounding. Counselors and volunteers will be pouring on the love and working really, really hard in 90degree temperatures, high humidity and bugs and poison ivy.
I had heard of this camp from many returning campers and counselors. I thought, "That's nice." Now I don't know how to describe it. Here's the best I can do: I feel like I've slipped and fallen in a puddle full of love.
John 13:34
A new command I give you: Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. by this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
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