Camp Wojtyla - Trinitarian Tipis

Main struggle of the day was tipi set-up. Long story short, we had to start over on all of them at least three times. The best point that was brought to my attention was that we had messed up with the tripod base. The Trinity. Our foundation was out of whack: therefore, nothing else was working the way it was supposed to. So it is with our relationship with God. When our relationship with Him is right, everything else falls right into place. What a miracle!

One of the main goals of this summer with the campers was to teach them about the four relationships: our relationship with God, with ourselves, with others, and with God's creation. The first objective is to reconcile our relationship with God because when that relationship is healed, everything else better as well. It's just like a machine. If one fundamental piece of a machine is not working properly, the entire system is thrown off. This summer was truly a testament to that. We were all focusing so much on our relationship with God that, from my perspective, all of those other relationships were working. This is not to say that we did not struggle at times. Living in a community for eight weeks, it is inevitable that someone is going to push another to their limit - especially on little amounts of sleep. But we were able to handle those situations rather than just ignoring that anything was wrong. That happens all too often in our world today. Too many people are afraid of actually addressing problems so they just let the tension sit and think that "time will heal everything." I don't think so. When there's an issue we shouldn't just let time heal it. That simply does not work. We need to learn how to communicate with each other and talk out problems in a civilized manner. There will be arguments and disagreements, no getting around that. But rather than ignoring those, or exploding at others in anger, those issues need to be addressed with understanding hearts.