As I re-read my comments I think we might be talking about different things. I was assuming a child would go off to camp by his/herself for some independent time away not necessarily as a family activity. I can see how a family camp might be beneficial tho. I guess the first thing that came to my mind was that we sort of live, eat, breath and sleep adoption all the time (or whatever else our daily realities might be). Wouldn't it be fun just to go to camp as an individual and not an individual who's adopted? Or as an individual with disabilities or as an individual with green eyes...etc. You get the idea---to just go away and be whoever you want to be. Then again, there are three months in a summer vacation so there's more than enough room for all of these experiences.
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Sad to be moving on... humbled by knowledge.
If we have been spared knowing this sin or that, it is the grace of God alone which has protected us, not any virtuous excellence of our own character.
--David C. Reardon
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