Are you listening to the roar or to the angels?

Joan Tarplee Hess

This was going to be Jonathan's third year at camp. As he packed his clothes, all he could think about was the ropes course. It's an obstacle course on ropes that hang about thirty-five feet above the ground. The ropes are attached to trees. You wear a safety harness attached to a safety wire above the course. This holds you in case you fall.

Jonathan had done the course before, but each time it took good balance and plenty of courage. At the finish he always felt he had really accomplished something important.

But on the first morning after he got to camp this summer, he didn't think much about the ropes. He felt afraid and alone without his family. He was at least fifteen hundred miles from his home, and there was no way he could change the situation. He began to cry.

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