The calm after the...play

The play is over for another year. 73 souls walked the aisles and professed Christ-what an amazing sight. I will never get over sitting on the platform watching them come forward, scared, excited, joyful, apprehensive, but all coming. God is so good.

Jason's birthday was crazy with the play this year-he's not had a moment's rest yet. Tomorrow, he has the morning off, then it's off to the college to take his place at Cross America. This year, he's the Goofy Game Guy.

The kids are growing like weeds. Their personalities are becoming so distinct. Kenton had a pretty big role in the play this year, and people kept telling him what a great job he was doing (he was, too-the kid can act, wait till you see the dvd!). The last night, after the performance ended, some of the folks onthe front row motioned him over to compliment him. He goes right up there (mind you-he doesn't know these people from Adam), shakes their hands and introduces himself like he's Something Special in the acting world. It was hilarious.

Eric, on the other hand, is completely fascinated with the back-stage goings-on. Our set director is always running back and forth hammering something, sawing something, working the dry-ice machine, setting stuff up, taking stuff apart, messing around with fake blood, and Eric is his little shadow. He was totally thrilled to get to help scrub blood stains out of the carpet after the performance. He said to anyone who cared to listen, "When I get big, I'm gonna do Mr. Acie's job!"

Allyson is going to be twelve any minute now. (Actually, not until the 18th, but you know how time flies.) She has been on the special music schedule for the last two months. She has an amazing voice. No formal training, no nothing, but she's got power and maturity and musical ability that I couldn't even fake at that age.

Now, we enter the calm before the storm...we have a couple months before summer camps begin. We'll need every minute to recover from the play, but our anticipation and excitement about camp grows every day: military theme! Dude, we are gonna get to blow stuff up! We are gonna make PVC guns and have a giant marshmallow war! It's gonna be awesome!

I gotta get to bed...