Everybody in the Pool!

Last night at camp, we had Water Olympics. As per the usual camp happenings, the activity consisted of five different games/relays, which all eventually turned into: "Dump Water on the Adults (or Kids)." After that fun chaos, everybody jumped in the pool.

That was probably the coolest part of the night. After getting dunked 734 times by 6th & 7th graders upon entering the waters, some of us adults found ourselves gathered together in a circle in the pool, gabbing and laughing it up. I looked around at one point and saw quite a site: There we were, the adults, all of us from very different backgrounds, in the middle of very different lives, all of us probably headed in very different directions, all together as one.

And surrounding us were tons of youngsters, who all come from incredibly different living situations, all a part of vastly different group and cliques at their respective schools, all wrapped up in all sorts of different extra-curricular activities and hobbies . . . all of them living it up & having the times of their lives. As one.

I think that's what the idea of community is all about. It's definitely what wholeness is about. And maybe, just maybe, that's a glimpse of what heaven is . . . even heaven in our midst, in our world, smack-dab in the middle of a pool.