my good friend from CA is in town, so we're gonna do lunch today... such a short meeting when we have so much to catch up on, but that's life these days. today, i will let him post for me. he posted this just a day or two ago; i'll be back after he takes his turn:
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i haven't written in a really long time...life has been a little busy, and i've started facebooking...i think i can only handle one website at a time...i'm on vacation now, though, and have a little time on my hands to write some...
we just got back from hsm summer camp a few days ago, and i was thinking back over the week today telling a friend about it...i love it when i have those moments that i learn something unexpected...it happened at camp this week...i was looking forward to camp this year, but i knew it would be a different experience because none of the guys from my small group were going to be there...they were all on vacation or had just gotten back from long trips or something...so i didnt really know any of the guys that were going to be in my cabin...i wasnt really sure what to expect...
when i walked in my cabin, i almost started laughing...i had three guys from capo hs that were sports guys and total beach bums...i also had two guys that were into classic rock and had hair past their shoulders...another guy raises lambs for his school's agriculture program...and the last guy was a "normal" average kid that went to school with some of the other guys...immediately i thought, "oh wow, this is gonna be an interesting week."...you know how hs cliques are...i could only imagine how the beach guys were going to gel with the lamb-raiser and rockers...i expected the worst...
the lesson i learned, though, was how important it is to be quick to love...within about an hour of being in our cabin, all of the guys in our cabin were laughing with eachother...there were pranks happening, jokes being made, nicknames being formed...they guys in my cabin were so quick to love on eachother...they could have been judgmental or cliquey...but instead they chose to love...and as a result they had an incredible camp experience...
i think i need to be more quick to love...i usually get around to it...but it can take me some time...if you examine christ's example, he was quick to love...the guys in my cabin reminded me of this...dont just love...love quickly...
lesson learned...
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back to me: he put this into words perfectly, yet so simply, for me. i have learned that this is true in the school setting... you have to gear up to want to get to know and have fun with the kids the first day and everyday after... otherwise, you may eventually get that feeling in you, but you've lost some ability to form relationships with certain students after so much time.... maybe even after the first day or two.
this year i did a pretty good job of being 'quick to love,' rather than slow to start loving. we had a good couple of first days, and i think it will pay off for the rest of the year.
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