Batman

Yesterday afternoon I went alone to see The Dark Knight.

"How was it?", My wife asked when I returned.

"Not sure, I guess it was good but would not call it great."

Something about the movie just never found a place with me. Wasn't quite sure why until reading this tonight. That is it! There was nothing there. A lot of things blew up and there was tension in the air but when I left the theater there was no joy or sadness, no motivation to change or stay the same, no lesson learned and no reason to even talk about it with friends. Nothing.

10 Summer Camp Memories

Yesterday dropped my daughter at Kanakuk K-West Kamp in Missouri. Absolutely the best christian camps and her favorite place in the whole world.

Got me thinking about going to camp as a kid. Ten things I remember about Summer Camp:

1. The List - that long list of everything to take.
2. Night Sounds - Fan spinning and the crickets chirping as I fell asleep.
3. Shaving Cream - Not to shave but for fights or filling sleeping bags.
4. Smells - Waking up to the smell of bacon in the morning.
5. Kids - Thousands of kids. Camp was almost bigger then my hometown.
6. Vespers - First time I remember sitting still long enough to hear God work in my heart.
7. Top Bunk - The only way to go as a kid. Now bottom bunk sounds so much better.
8. Food - The food may not have been great but being so hungry it all tastes good.
9. Girls - At 12-17 years old, nothing like the chance to meet and date girls you didn't grow up with.
10. That Mountain Top Experience - Actually finding myself changed when I got home. Too bad it too often faded away.
    

I pray she finds God around every corner the next two weeks and builds strong friendships with girls from around the country. It is hard to let go for two weeks but I know she is building her own list of summer camp memories that will be with her the rest of her life.

Sleep

I am tired. It has been a long week and face a 10 hour drive tomorrow to take our daughter to camp in Missouri then return home. So going to sleep.

Read this then get some sleep yourself.

Good night!!

Back Home Again

Great vacation in Phoenix. Accomplished very little other then perfecting the art of doing nothing. A little golf, fine food and floating around the hotel's lazy river were the only activities over the six day stay. It was good to get away!!

Playing It Safe

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

Grace Murray Hopper

So what were we built for? Are we here only to play it safe? So much of our focus tends to be on keeping ourselves tightly tethered to the shore.

However, are there plans waiting beyond the horizon that we just can't quite see? Something that may not come easy but a passion burns inside that requires pulling up anchor and setting sail.

Over the past few years I have met so many of the people that have headed out to find what God had waiting for them. No promises, no guarantees, just an over whelming love for God and a deep desire to trust what he had put on their hearts. Some are on the other side of the world while others are just down the street. It is amazing to see the peace and freedom in someone who finds what they were really built for.

God's miracles show up through us when we pursue the things other then those we can do on our own.