The Journey to Joy

While I was working at a summer camp in college, there was a rule that if the counselors wanted to “play on the lake” they could only go out to do that at the crack of dawn before the campers woke up. So we’d often meet at the dock in our swimsuits and quietly back the boat out of the slip. We’d slowly make our way out of the camp cove and into the middle of the lake. Then we’d ski, tube, and generally laugh and cut up.
It was the best way to get in the mood to start a full day of work with kiddos.
I’ll never forget one specific day, I went out with a group of female counselors. After we’d been skiing, we decided to pull off into a cove to hook up the tube. While we were there someone (it was probably me, but I honestly …