Proper 10 (B) + Real power ... humility + 7.15.18
Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 ) In the name… Some of you know that Pastor Alene and I were camp chaplains this week at Camp Stevens, the Episcopal Camp that our diocese shares with the Diocese of San Diego. Being at camp is always both tiring because it is long days working with kids and trekking around hills in the heat, but refreshing because those same kids and the staff and counselors fill you with so much joy. Plus it is just so renewing to the soul to be in nature. Yet even at camp, away from so much of the technology that surrounds us, we are still in the world with all of its glory and all of its problems. One moment I felt this very strongly while at camp was one afternoon while I was offering a free time activity of coloring along with some other activities. Several of the coloring sheets in my book contained quotes from scripture and one of the girls was reading them aloud as she ...