Torch Trail Day 1

It's good to be home.  After a long stretch of not being here at Torch, my return has felt like fresh air to my lungs.  That being said, the experience is also surreal.  Picture going away on a long trip and finally returning home; you're excited to be back at something so familiar.  However, something is different.  Instead of the usual faces you associate with home, it's filled with strangers.  This is the feeling I have here at camp.  There are a lot of things that are exactly as they were several years ago (the emergency procedure sheet in my cabin lists Ken and Louise as the directors), and there are some cool new things (wireless internet, hello!)  One of the most exciting things has been to meet the new generation of staff; especially the ones I remember as campers. When you work with youth and children you often don't see what happens to the rest of their life; you don't know if the gospel took root and bloomed in their life.  It's rewarding to meet young adults that loved their experience at camp so much that they kept coming back, year after year, and now want to make it a good experience for others.  Continue to plant seeds, even when it's likely you won't see the fruit.