Eric Bailey's

I feel rather up beat about this year's family camp. It hasn't worked out because of some big plan of mine, but it does seem that the younger leaders of the church are beginning to take over things and be allowed to do so. No one has pushed us about the food or the scheduling that we are doing. I guess that makes this the first of "our" family camps. What does this mean for the fall? Are we becoming a little more free? I think so. I think that the younger leaders might be given their space to work and build the church how we see it for the next few years.

I feel positive about this stuff right now, even though most of the work for this has fallen on to one person.

The only concern I have is that my positive feeling won't last and I wonder how I will respond as my mood falls this new school year.

I am already looking at attending another conference in Texas this year (if we can afford it). It is good for me to get away to these things and come back full of ideas, and plans or at least feeling better than when I left. It used to be that I would go away to these and I would start things when I got back. Last time I came back I wasn't quite starting new things, but I was feeling better and that is always a good thing.