The cycle of existence is on beautiful display here. We witness the truth that through every storm, the sun will eventually return. The tall-standing trees out our windows and lining the mountains have shaken off the snow that had recently flocked them. The sky has opened up and revealed a distant, snow-capped mountain, and a new layer of frozen-over snow presents itself to students, who must tread ever so carefully over the winter glaze. The fact that our time in the building is soon coming to an end also serves as a reminder of this life-cycle: beginnings, ends, new beginnings, and so forth. There is this observable, bubbling energy about a room whenever the short duration of our time left in the building is brought up. I think, in all of our coming to this program, we share in the universal delight of newness and change. We welcome the new experiences that will be opened to us when it is time to move out of the building and live life with new staff members, absorbing the buzz and excitement of summer camp.
Life in the Joshua building is slowly coming to an end. We have our Israel trip coming up in a three or four weeks, then we have spring break literally right after we land in LAX. After break, we only have two weeks left in the building and then we move down into camp and get ready to work our summer jobs. But for now we are getting back into rhythm and getting back into Joshua life after our LA trip, which was amazing, we got to grow closer and be more aware of how easy it is to just strike up a conversation with a random person and just get the opportunity to hear their life story. People each have their own individual stories and experiences and we got to take a peek into what they believe, what they do for fun and where they are from and how they feel about the world around them. It was very humbling to be a part of all of it, but knowing we can do this in our own neighbor hoods.
As we come closer to moving out of the building, you realize how much you have grown and how much the people around you have grown also, not in just maturity but in the Lord, as a family and siblinghood.
