Every day it seems like there is something that I am waiting on. Who will be our speakers? What type of activities will we have? When will the brochures be ready to send? Where will the staff sleep? Why didn't more people register early? How many kids are going to come?
In some areas of life one action will produce another. If you push the ice button on the refrigerator, ice comes out. If you dial a number, the phone rings. Simple right? What if like in my case, you don't have an ice button, or your phone doesn't work? See, not everything is so instant, no matter how hard we try.
If I could find a "complete all the steps needed to make camp happen" button, wouldn't it be great? All our staff, speakers, activities, campers, buses, food, everything to make a great camp would magically appear in a flash. What I wonder though, is what would be missing in the hours of calling, e-mailing, thinking, rearranging cabins, appologizing, & coordinating that would no longer be needed?
It's pretty hard to have an answer to a question like that... what if? What comes to mind though, is the picture of a parent who is expecting a baby. There is tension, and uncertainty, hours of preparation, and definately pain. When the long awaited child arrives, there has been so much thought and feeling poured into his or her arrival that the parents can truly say, "this was worth the wait".
