Our ten year old, Ethan, has been at Servant Camp
at our church all week, which means each day he did a service project in the
morning and then did something fun in the afternoon. So he has helped at a soup kitchen, spread
mulch at a park, played bingo with elderly folks in a nursing home, given
homeless pets some exercise at a shelter, and so on. He has such a loving heart and I’m so proud
of him. I’m grateful to attend a church
that helps kids learn to serve others.
This morning, I dropped him off at camp and the drive over gave us some
time to talk. NPR is usually on in my
car and Ethan began asking questions, so we discussed Edward Snowdon, seeking
asylum, and how people disagree whether what he did was good or bad for the
country. We talked about Nelson Mandela,
what apartheid was, and why Mr. Mandela is such a great man (I got in a recommended
reading plug for “Long Walk to Freedom” for when Ethan’s older). And we wrapped up our tour of current events
with gay marriage. Not bad for 20
minutes on a summer Thursday.
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