Emphasis Preaching Journal

Before Sally went to summer camp her mother gave her a list. On the list were things that any mother would not want her teenage daughter to do while away from parental regard. Sally looked at the list -- no smoking, no swearing, no cheating or lying, no sassing the adult counselors, no boys, no overindulgence in chocolate. The list went on. There were lots of smiling faces drawn on the page and some good humor thrown in as an attempt to temper the negative tone. Sally wrote back to her mother a list of her own.