The Nourisment of Community: Camp Viola

Camp Notes: The rhythm of community life brings nourishment to our souls, inspiration to our intellect.Those who say they need take time away to rest and get themselves together, have not yet discovered the nourishment that community brings. In community, the rhythms of rest and play, sleep and labor, social excursion and spiritual introversion, co-exist and flow together. While one sleeps, another watches. While one sits under a tree and grills food, another drives to town for more plates. Bursts of activity and pauses of contemplation are part of God's rhythm for nature and man.

My daughter was there when she died...

Prayer requests like these last a life time. Her baby sitter had a two month old baby die in her care today. "He went to sleep on his stomach. We turned his head, and blood was coming from his nose. He was gone." So who do we pray for? The mom, the dad, the baby sitter, the sister and brother, the little five year old who saw it, the neighbors, the friends, the relatives, the mortician, the child, the preacher, the EMT's. All of us stand in the need. Psalm 40

In the Belly of the Whale

We were both silent when the helicopter lifted off the ground, rose above the field and twisted car frame, with his son inside. You don't say much at moments like that. You just pray deeply from a dark hole deep down in your soul.