If you look for God anywhere, you’ll find Him everywhere.  And if you look for Him everywhere, you’ll find Him anywhere.  –Timotheus Pope from the City of Kidz

1. Thick morning fog at sunrise.
2. Blackberries right off the bush.
3. 615 AM workouts and walks with my swolemate.
4. Wildflowers.
5. Watermelon on a warm evening.
6. Accountability, vulnerability and all other things we love to hate and hate to love.
7. Permanent union between Cheerios and Frosted Mini Wheats.
8. Pool time, lake time, and any-variation-of-a-large-body-of-water time.
9. Fancy sound equipment for my dance parties.
10. Second homes away from home where I am able to hide, read, write, and sleep.
11. Beautiful examples of godly marriages.
12. Grace that flows like a river tidal wave.
13. Warm mugs on cold mornings.
14. Porch time with a dear friend.
15. This. 
16. Home cooked meals around the table.
17. Conversations of Kingdom come and Kingdom work.
18. A healthy body–knee caps which are in place, ankle ligaments which are more or less intact, and wrists which are doing their best to stave off carpal tunnel.
19. The opportunity to work with power tools and build corn toss boards.
20. Vision and direction.
21. That moment when the temperature and humidity drop right before the storm.
22. #SQUAD.  I am looking at you, Rebecca, Andrea, Summer, and Kenisha!
23. Monkey bread and black coffee.
24. Hope.
25. My neon Nalgene, still going strong after three years and many, many miles of travel.
26. P31 Bible Studies, affectionately known as “Mandatory Fun.”  With that, I also need to mention what a won-der-ful women’s staff we had this year!!
27. Barb’s Country Store.
28. The C.R.E.W. boys in all their goofiness.
29. Hugs from campers.  Hugs from counselors.  Hugs, hugs, hugs, and more hugs to fill up my physical touch reservoir before I go back to the city.
30. Emily, Abbey, and Fanta.  Enough said.
31. My hiking boots.
32. Nighttime debriefs with the Avengers.
33. Belly laughs.
34. Brothers in Christ who encourage and remind me that not all men out there are like the rich, sleazy, snooty Midtown businessmen I deal with everyday.
35. Pennsylvania thunderstorms.
36. Organized sports!!  All of them.
37. Explicit requirements to memorize verses and segues to share the Gospel.
38. G1 girls who remind me that cartwheels are not just for gym class.
39. Salad bar.
40. Humble beginnings and the growth in-between there, here, and now.
41. The move toward more creative, cutting-edge, respectable Christian art.
42. Yellow meal and cream of chicken dinner!  Sike naw, sike naw.  In all seriousness, though, I am thankful to eat three meals a day.
43. The power of prayer.
44. Peaches from our tree!  Coming Soon! Summer 2044!
45. Colored Sharpies and construction paper.
46. Shade and a cool breeze, especially on meet day.
47. The opportunity to dance with campers, counselors, and the Pope kids.
48. Letters, packages, and Postagrams!!
49. Bethel’s You Make Me Brave album.
50. These cool cats. 

*Also, if you want to learn more about what I do during the summer, here is the website [http://sb2w.org/citikidz/] and this is my shameless plug.  Check it out.