Prayer: Dear God, may we learn from Christ’s example and share kindness with others, at camp and throughout our daily lives. Amen.
Reading: Ephesians 4:32 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: This summer at camp, on July 20th, we celebrated the American Camp Association’s “Camp Kindness Day.” To celebrate campers decorated clothes pins to secretly pin kind messages on each other, they also drew pictures with chalk of times someone was kind to them, in crafts they painted kindness rocks to hide around camp, and at lunch everyone wrote a kind message in a card to someone else at camp. Even without special events to celebrate, camp is a special place where everyone is kind and inclusive. One of our campers drew a picture of how kind her counselors were when they welcome her into her A-frame cabin on Sunday (see picture above)! As followers of Christ, we are called to share kindness with others, just as God has so kindly forgiven us. Today’s verse is also a beloved camp song – “Be Ye Kind” Be ye kind, one unto another, Tender-hearted, forgiving one another, Even as God, for Christ’s sake has forgiven you. Do do doodly do. Ephesian 4:32! --Anne Harshbarger
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