back from Camp Peniel

Back from Camp Peniel

These are nice people. I don't feel worthy.

High points for me are that we played a very friendly Scrabble game with a couple with last name of Taft. It was very fast. Everyone played common words and The four of us totally over 500 points. I think that is pretty good. Everywhere scored pretty close except the wife who emptied her board for a 92 point word. Very cool. That put her ahead to stay.

Second high point was that DW and I sang a children's song with the motions for our "talent" in the talent show. We sang "I'm a little stone in the house of Jesus". Some might remember that little ditty. We thought about "The Butterfly Song". Maybe next year. DW would have done it. I was afraid we would fumble on the order of the animals.

(Parenthetically some of the "acts" were unbearable.) But the dog acts were good especially the first one. She knew a lot of great tricks.

There were Christian talks that bore on reaffirming our commitment to Jesus. Talks like that confuse me. Am I totally committed? I think I am and at the same time I know I can do better. I think God has me where he wants me and I have to trust he will roust me up if I need to do more. So I am pretty confused to know how to proceed with such talk. Perhaps it is simply to say, "yes Lord". And to aks God to show me what more he wants me to do. But I think we can easily outrun the Lord. We can do things God is simply not calling us to and think we are great people for doing so. And yet ... And yet ... God help me to know your mind on this.

The third high point was to see the UMHB Passion Play Wednesday night 5:00 PM. Well we got lost getting there so we got there for only half of the play. We got there just as the Passion part was starting. The visit to Herod must have just ended. Looked like from the set that we missed the woman at the well and the Upper Room/ Last Supper. Naomi got there at the same time so she filled us in.

Actually God very much blessed us with a miracle parking spot and then Naomi to give us advice as to where to sit. DD3 was playing one of the sorrowful women who cried when Jesus was suffering and dying. She was on the large outdoor set most of the time. Later we got a nice Mexican meal with her. It was great to do some catching up. We also saw here roommates, which include Naomi.

But she had to rush off for more of the festivities. We had to cut it short. We headed back to Camp Peniel. We got there at 10 PM. Some people were having a jam session like they did the night before. More of us stayed up to sing along.

They also use the Celebration Hymnal and like Sam they choose a lot of songs that are famous in Baptist churches. Many of these people are about the same age as the people in Brighton Home.

I peevishly wanted to ask them to sing an old Redeemer song but I refrained. There are several of them in this hymnal. No doubt none of the guitar players nor any of the singers have ever heard of it and would not appreciate my raining on their trip down memory lane. These songs are "heart songs" for them as they are really not for me. But I can sing them.

Eventually there will be pictures of us on the Camp Peniel website of us on horses. But there are not up yet.