TeenConnect: Your Healings August 15, 2022

Keeping up at camp

Owen Sipe

Originally appeared online in the teen series Your Healings -  June 14, 2022

AARON CRANFORD — STAFF
I was worried. I was about to spend the summer as a counselor at a camp for Christian Scientists, and I wasn’t sure I would be able to work to my full potential. I’ve often struggled with fatigue and lack of stamina, especially in sports. And now I was going to be working with the littlest kids at camp, who are always full of energy. On top of that, counselors face constant demands and a feeling of being pulled every which way, and I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to stay energized and excited to work. 

Sure enough, after just a week with my campers, I was already starting to feel the work weighing me down. Fatigue was getting to me. I wasn’t as present for the kids as I wanted to be, and there was still a lot of the summer left. 

After just a week with my campers, I was already starting to feel the work weighing me down.

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