THE ENERGY AND EXCITEMENT OF DAY CAMP

Have you ever been part of the energy at a Day Camp? It’s something different. It’s something so unique that I find it difficult to even bring to words. One moment I am sitting there comforting a camper over the death of an ant. While ten minutes later I am listening to the most drawn-out story of a family vacation from another. The energy is alive as we take out first jump into the pool at the YMCA, and that same energy is alive as we give every last ounce of energy we have in us in order to create some sort of order. But there is that energy that cannot be explained in just one word. For that energy is changing and will continue to change. The question is how do we continue to live in that energy?

Day Camp was my life last week and it was that energy that I thrived off of. Of course energy is not always positive, but it is present. As we spent the week looking at what does it mean to be steward’s of God’s creation, energy is part of that. Of course in the sense that we should turn off lights when we leave a room and such, but also the very idea of how do we find the energy in our lives to be co-creators.

I struggle with this a lot, but the very energy and excitement of a group of young people excited to use their energy to make a difference carries such a strong message of hope to the reality of being stewards of creation.