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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Camping (07/11/05)
Preparations for camping may have variations depending on the particulars of the site you’ll reside. Knowing where it’s located is information worth noting and leaving it accessible so that you can be found. To have an approximate idea of travel time could help to keep you on track. The duration of your stay is something that should be planned prior to your arrival to the camp-site. Your mode of travel could be dictated by what you have to take along with you. Selecting clothing articles may very well be an important decision. Some scenarios call for specialized garments concerning warmth, dryness, and protection in some situations. How much apparel and preferable materials need to be understood pre-camp. Food is more of a concern for some than for others. If you have a strict diet you must take all the precautions to be certain that every stipulation I met. Shelters should be adequate for any condition that may occur. Check and double check and the probability that you will have a great time multiples. Just thinking about camping has me chomping at the bit. If you have never camped before this could be like the discovery of a new world.
After settling into the desired place and your gear is put away or set up. It is time to proceed with what you are at camp for. Initiate things with deep breathing. Fill your lungs with unfamiliar chemical composition. Continue this practice for the entire excursion. Survey your surroundings extensively. If a camp instructor of some sort is around be cooperative of the instructions given to you. In the instance that you have written directions or verbal, be sure that you use them in the manner it was advised. Posted notices are generally for your safety such as: No Fishing, No Swimming, No Fires, Do Not Feed the Animals, or No Camping. Adhere to these warnings. As you acclimate you will find that the trailblazers that preceded you were similar to you, and they want you to avoid the mistakes they made. If you are willing accept direction it makes you a trailblazer for those that follow after you.
Camping can be a world totally different than the world you are most familiar with. You leave your habitat to venture to a place where you haven’t established dominion. To create a safe sleeping place, you will need to a clearing so that an area is marked to any invaders that they are committing an intrusion. Fires have to be managed and placed in good logical places. Fire is a tool that can be used for defensive purposes, cooking, sterilizing, and more; but you must keep control when it comes to fire. It can become unruly and extremely dangerous. While you are camping take time to be observant and considerate of insects, animals foliage, fruit, and other things that are there and accessible to you. If you rise early and remain busy through out the day you will be ready for a good nights sleep, and you will have a million thoughts of the day occurrences to ponder over.
A camping trip can set off a spiritual awakening. True camping is a hiatus. The bible declares our Lord rested on the seventh day. I don’t believe he went to sleep. Possibly he went to camp for rest. He says that I was created in his image and on the seventh day I want to go camping. There's a time to break the everyday routine in your life. If you do something that’s unfamiliar it requires responses that aren’t the usual ones. We have actions in us that lie dormant because our lifestyles don’t call for their use. Do you know you r God is the only creator. Get better acquainted with his workmanship. So extend your contact with the earth that he put you in dominion of.
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Nina Phillips
07/19/05
This was a very good article. I loved the thoughts of preparation, and getting out of the comfort zone. It would have been much easier for me as a reader, if the paragraphs were spaced properly and separated though. God bless ya, littlelight
Shari Armstrong 
07/20/05
A nice entry :) Try to separate your paragraphs to make it easier to read.
dub W
07/20/05
Break up the paragraphs and try to write without second person. Thanks for posting.
Katherine Douglas
07/21/05
very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Brandi Roberts
07/21/05
A agree with dub here, try to avoid the second person writing...would have been better had you described it in first person as though you were going through each thing. Otherwise a good read. Thanks for sharing!