No one was supposed to die.

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16 years 1 week ago #7530 by
No one is supposed to die at a Christian camp. No one is supposed to die from a simple game shooting foam rockets at each other, they are too soft. But someone did. We were playing a game of Foam Rockets and someone had a heart attack, the field was cleared, and CPR was begun. I found myself praying harder for this kid that I did not know then I had prayed for awhile. Suddenly thie book I am writing, homework, selling our house, having fun, paintball, Jediism, and all the petty things I was planning two seconds earlier did not matter. Two minutes passed, I prayed harder. Five minutes passed and I began to worry. It was ten minutes before the ambulance arrived. Then I heard the Camp director tell the ambulance driver that the kid had no pulse since he went down. With all the reading I had done, I knew their was little hope for this kid, and that if by some miracle he survived he would be virtually brain-dead. The ambulance drivers loaded him up and drove him off. It hit me hard, this kid is dead. It turned out that, thank God, that the camp had done this to show how imminent death could be. How in one unexpected instance, someone might have a heart attack, and how we might have passed by him in the halls of our schools or workplaces, and never have told him one word about Christ.

This drama actually hit me hard, I don’t have time to ease people into belief in Christ and the Force, I don’t have time to be diplomatic, I don’t have time to sit here and say it in a way in which I will be liked. We just don't have time.

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16 years 1 week ago #7536 by
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I have had my fair share of life altering expierences. I have come to terms that death is inevitable. We all begin to die from the day we're born.
May I can take a quote from one of my favorite movies Gladiator. Its in the beginning where General Maximus is talking to his men before going into combat, \"what we do in life echoes an enternity!\" Just make good use of the time you do have and prepare yourself for your new journey which awaits at the end.

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16 years 1 week ago #7537 by
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it is right that we lack of time, but nevertheless we have to exercise ourselfs in patience ...

because i'm not really sure what you're on about ... considering this: o don't have the time ...

you will have to accept that things take time, and that changes as we might aspire can't be made within a day ... a week ... or a year, sometimes it will take a lifetime or even longer to teach people understanding what is right and what isn't ...

for it doesn't help if we just tell them, they have to realise it on their own and embrace it as a truth ... or like you would maybe say, a God-given truth ... (just want to say that i don't believe in god ^^ ... but i don't mind anybody else doing so ... it is everybodys decision)

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16 years 1 week ago #7540 by
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Very true. Patience is indeed a virtue, things do take time.

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16 years 1 week ago #7541 by Neaj Pa Bol
We never truly think about time in our daily lives. It is a moment that we are a part of. Death does not look at time itself. It doesn't need to. We know that we should speak of our beliefs to others, but the human mind also weighs the issuses before we open our mouths. But we never look at it directly.

What was taught at your camp was a wise lesson, but did it truly reach out for all to see. We will never truly know because we do not see these people every day. All we can do is our best. Believe in ourselves and do as much as we can to show the example, even if it is just one person at a time.

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16 years 1 week ago #7543 by
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I've seen this tool used before in high schools, or at least where I'm from. Random student was taken out of class and then given a sign wore around their necks that indicated that they were deceased. No one could talk to these students all day, because they were supposed to be dead. I don't think they got the results the falculty was expecting though. But I'm it effected some.

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