Árdís - 01.01.1954, Page 59

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glad to say that children are becoming more camp conscious each
year. When they leave they can hardly wait to return.
I am stressing the spiritual side of camp life because I think
you will like to know that the children are benefitting by it, not
that they are taught more of that than other things, for the camp
has a curriculum well rounded out with all that goes with camp life.
I would like to pay tribute to all who have given their time and
strength so unselfishly to this work, the deans, leaders and members
of the Board of Directors, and I would like to add that were it not
for Mrs. Olafson, our camp director who keeps her hand on the
hub of the wheel, oiling it with her smile, yet being gently firm,
our camp would not run quite so smoothly. We owe her so much
we can never repay. But the camp work will be one of the jewels
in her crown.
God grant us, the members of the Lutheran Women’s League,
grace to work for Him in the many fields He has chosen for us to
labor in. Let us do our work in the spirit pleasing to Him, not
minding if there may be criticisms coming from some directions.
Christ and Iiis disciples were criticized by the Pharisees when on
a Sabbath they sought food in a cornfield. That it not what matters.
Day and night our Saviour toiled, resting little as He knew He had
so little time and that it must not be wasted.
So may we labor during the short time allotted to us. May we
give freely of what we have—time, energy, love—and the greatest
of these is love.
“We each have all the time there is;
our mental and moral status is
determined hy what we do with it.”
Mary Blake