my life at camp

I have started working at camp full time for the summer, this year and it has been a real challenge. Having a love for kids i run an LIT program for christian kids ages15-16. It has been really great getting to know each one of them. I love the job and hate it all at once. But as you begin to get to know these kids more and more they are really amazing because they feel safe to share how they feel. And some of the hurts and pains of these kids lives comes out while sharing with some of my staff. It really breaks your heart to know how they have been hurt by strangers and family, and people that are suppose to protect them...

The other aspect of my life that is really hard right now is living in community. both me and my husband share a house with another couple. It has been really hard to share a home and share jobs as well. I have really learned a lot about living in communuity and how hard it really is. You all come with your own ways of seeing the world and how the home should function. Something really interesting is that we had never had a house meeting until all shit broke loose. But once that was handled it is like living in a new house. If i could suggest anything to people who are choosing to go this route of communial living that you need to take time to realize that is what you are doing and talk and act and live in that knowledge...otherwise you will try to live indepently of the community and that doesn't work....

At any rate things aren't perfect but we are on the road to a better understanding of what communtiy is? I think?