What a Month!

Wow, what a month July was! Boy was it packed, and did it ever fly. I was blessed to return again to speak for Katie's Kids Kamp for one and a half sessions. Following up camp, I led my first two workshops at ACU's Summer Workshop. It was a new experience, to say the least, to be presenting to a room of peers in the ministry to children. Of course, I spoke on multimedia in ministry, so it was pretty easy and quite enjoyable.

For a while, I was afraid no one was going to show up for my first one, but as time approached, in they came. It was cool! They stayed, asked questions and seemed to be pleased at the end. Most stayed for my second workshop while new people came in. Oh, and my computer actually worked the whole time, which is always a plus when speaking on using media like computers.

A great first workshop...I'd doing it again. July has really arrived and gone in a matter of moments, but I am quite ready for August. New challenges and experiences await as we journey into Divorce Care for Kids. Not quite sure where the Lord is leading me, but wow, what a journey!

May your August be blessed from the only source of true blessings...Jesus Christ.

Random thoughts that make you go....hmm.

1. Why can I spill one drop of red cool-aid on my counter and wipe it up immediately...and it's already left a stain? HMM?

2. Where does the lint come from in the drier? Are my clothes deteriorating? And why hasn't someone created a machine to put it back? HMM?

3. If an elephant laughed while drinking milk, where would the milk come out of? HMM?

4. Who decided grass was grass and weeds were weeds? Maybe we have it backwards. Grass is much easier to kill than weeds...maybe I'm trying to kill the wrong thing. HMM?

5. If a clown staring at himself in the mirror, laughs himself to death, is it suicide? HMM?

Okay, that was a pretty dumb post, but I've nothing enlightened to say, so there you go.

Another Summer Camp for the books

Well, it sure is nice to be back in my house and sleeping in my own bed. Camp was really good, inspite of the rain (at least the temperature was great!). We had some great teens and adults as staff and a great bunch of kid campers. I rode a horse more than I have in my entire life. I was the one who took the campers over for the trail rides and got to ride along three days. I only fell off once. :)

Wouldn't have been so bad, but I was riding double with a nervous camper. About five minutes in, I felt the saddle start slipping and off we went, down to the ground and then sliding down under the horse. Luckily, the horse was huge and all he wanted to do was stop and eat, so as we slid down under him, he stopped and started eating. WOW, that was an experienece - we were muddy, a little shocked, but okay and we finished the ride (though we stopped twice more to get the saddle retightened). Seemed the rain was soaking everything, and caused our saddle to slide.

We finished camp with big mud puddles, lots of great pictures (over 3000 of 'em) and great memories of another year.