Finding your way through the rapids of life
Going into my senior year of high school, I was nervous about the future and unsure about what I wanted to do after I graduated. I was worried that I wouldn’t feel satisfied no matter what I did, so I was generally apathetic about the whole process of figuring out my future.
However, these concerns were the last thing on my mind as I sat on a railroad trestle looking down at a river rapid called Zoom Flume. I was a counselor-in-training with a camp kayaking program, and we were scouting one of the biggest rapids that we would run that summer. I was giddy with excitement and nerves; I love Zoom Flume. The faces of the campers around me ranged from that same excitement and nervousness to something a lot closer to dread.
The purpose of scouting this rapid was to put together a “line”—a plan for how to get through each element of the rapid and move from one element to the next. Since this is a camp for Christian Scientists, we often begin our activities with spiritual inspiration. In the river-oriented programs, one idea that’s been helpful is the spiritual definition of river from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Channel of thought.
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