Camping Tips: How to feed the multitudes off one squirrel

This new story was developing wonderfully. Everything was falling into squirrel!!!

One Mean Squirrel

I now have a new appreciation for the Israelites. How quickly and easily they lost focus and wanted to go back to Egypt. It’s almost like a gravitational pull. The Israelites didn’t want to be slaves. But in  Egypt the rules, the bondage and the story of slavery were somehow easier than God’s new story that required change and gave them instant freedom. It’s easy to sit back and judge the Israelite. I mean seriously … how could they not trust God when he was so clearly manifest before them? The unfortunate truth is this: we are just like them. We prefer the chains more than the freedom. Maybe there is “gravity” to this sin thing.

Getting out of Egypt is always much easier than going through the wilderness. There is only way through: follow the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. It takes determination and FOCUS.

Now, don’t panic. I haven’t fallen off the deep end to where I need some major intervention. In fact, I have been exercising and eating according to the “Rules of the Road.”

My new friend

To be painfully honest the thing that is missing is the heart of what I set out to do: savor.

I don’t really know how it happened. I just know that somewhere around day 40-45 I lost focus. I started being more concerned about losing weight than savoring. I fully expect to lose weight. It’s just not the center of what I’m trying to do.

So I am going to have to revise my road. I’m not sure what it’s going to look like yet. I have been thinking about it for a couple of days and hopefully I will have it nailed down soon.

When I was in middle school I went camping with a group of friends and we actually ate some poor squirrel. Tasted just like bacon! Not really. It did taste kind of like chicken. So if you ever plan on going camping…go buy a chicken! Please! You will never be able to feed yourself on one squirrel. I’m telling you those critters are all fur! Oh, and while you’re at the store…get some bacon!