The heritage and lessons of hard physical work is not easily available to teens today. Think we need a proxy?
As I think about wilderness adventures, boot camps, team sport and education camps perhaps there is a wage based expenses required experience to allow coming of age to mean something.
Philmont, scouts, sports camps, sports, and summer jobs were significant for me. Church camp not so much. Ironically the physical and social quest of the former engendered more spiritual assets for me than the chapel of church camp. The former was real and the second felt virtual. Isn't it ironic that emphasizing the physical and social leads to the spiritual.
Similarly, cleaning bricks and building a retaining wall during our church building program engendered more tangible spiritual assets for me. How much of spiritual growth is physical? Struggle? Doubt?
Faith exist beyond the mind and heart and physical and social portals have less barriers to strong imputs of character building works.
My current science insight is that lifestyles that increase BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor and HRV heart rate variability index builds the network of mind and body to appreciate better the creator who designed us all to fast, pray work, learn and share hospitality in order to grow mentally, physically and spiritually.
I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.
Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ.
As I think about wilderness adventures, boot camps, team sport and education camps perhaps there is a wage based expenses required experience to allow coming of age to mean something.
Philmont, scouts, sports camps, sports, and summer jobs were significant for me. Church camp not so much. Ironically the physical and social quest of the former engendered more spiritual assets for me than the chapel of church camp. The former was real and the second felt virtual. Isn't it ironic that emphasizing the physical and social leads to the spiritual.
Similarly, cleaning bricks and building a retaining wall during our church building program engendered more tangible spiritual assets for me. How much of spiritual growth is physical? Struggle? Doubt?
Faith exist beyond the mind and heart and physical and social portals have less barriers to strong imputs of character building works.
My current science insight is that lifestyles that increase BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor and HRV heart rate variability index builds the network of mind and body to appreciate better the creator who designed us all to fast, pray work, learn and share hospitality in order to grow mentally, physically and spiritually.
I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.
Lessons From the Ranch: Schooling a Teen in Hard Work
http://www.wsj.com/articles/lessons-from-the-ranch-schooling-a-teen-in-hard-work-1459899578Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ.
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