::lent - emptying & refilling::
A fellow counselor serving trip food "If you kill it you __________" "FILL IT!" I heard this refrain every day all summer long as a camp counselor at HoneyRock. We taught our kids that if they finished a dish during a meal, they were responsible for refilling it so others could have more. The concept was simple: be aware of the needs of others and take responsibility for what you've done. Our campers would dutifully and rapidly refill every dish they had finished. The only trouble occasionally being that the other campers either wouldn't want more or they would only want one serving. So my co-counselor and I told our campers to ask everybody else if they wanted more before they went to get more helpings so we weren't wasting food. They wanted to make sure everything was full and while I appreciated their helping hands, I had to tell them it was okay if something remained empty. Or is it? How often are we the same way about far bigger things than another