DAY 1: their graduation

I spent the day at a seaside retreat house, facilitating ASUL's graduation camp for this year's batch of Asulites. I can't find the right words to piece together the right sentences to describe what I felt, seeing these 15 (more or less) leaders-in-training grow from individualistic individuals into one strong team that has learned to work together to achieve their goals. There are just really times when my mind is lost for words, and all I can do is feel, corny as that may sound.

Hence, since that's how the world turns at the moment, think I'd rather contemplate about the seaside retreat house than force myself to dredge up words that won't come out right. So...the seaside retreat house was like a slice of paradise. It was my first there, and I felt like I could have stayed forever. The breeze blowing in from the sea. The sand that got inside my Crocs. The dogs that followed us around. The laughter of the Asulites. The wooden open-air cottage that was great for sitting down. The place...the entire amazing place that made me feel like all my problems have slipped away. These are the things I'll remember when I look back on this day. This and the indescribable feeling inside me that I could not express.

There was this swing that we (that's me and my fellow ASUL Core) sat it, facing the beach, and it was there that I breathed a prayer of thanks  that He brought me here for my first day of summer.