Refreshment

Yesterday, I had a very refreshing conversation with a little kid half my age. The property manager here has a daughter named Ellie who comes down to the barn almost every day and helps out, goes on rides, that whole thing. Anyway, one of her friends came to ride and she was asking me how everything worked with having different groups of campers come in every week. I explained that campers came on Sundays and left on Saturdays, with groups coming and leaving all summer. She responded with, "So you get the pleasure of teaching new campers to ride every week?" I was silent for a second, floored by the truth spit at me by this 11 year old little girl that I skip over almost every second of every day.

It is so easy for me to let my job become just that, my job. Doing a similar thing everyday, all summer, I have allowed myself to fall into routine, and not examine every blessing God has put into my day, in all the small things, like a beautiful sunrise every day, and in the big things, like giving me the opportunity to reach out and touch every kid on camp. In one sentence, it was brought back to me not to things for granted, to savor every moment of every day.

I feel like God sometimes throws out these little moments and bits of wisdom to help me realize some things in life that need work, or His touch. The challenge there is to see and hear those moments and not pass over them in the day.


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