Processing Good Experiences

Shannon and I went to a meeting for Mas and Pas yesterday. We were told it would be a 45 minute meeting. Let me summarize what was covered for you:

• The trek will be a really good experience
• It will be hard
• The difficulties will make it a good experience
• We need to process what happens
• The experiences will be made better by processing them
• Even though it will be hard, it will be a good experience
• This is going to be a really good experience for the youth
• The trek will be a really good experience

You might think I'm joking with that list, but really, it greatly under emphasizes their key point, which was: "the trek will be a really good experience". An hour and forty minutes later, we left the meeting. We're looking forward to the next one.

(Oh, "processing" was the buzz word of the day. It means "talk about what has happened". The purpose is to get the kids to think about the terrible things we're going to make them do and apply them to their lives and stuff like that. But clearly "We need to process what we're going through" is much better than saying "We need to talk about what we're going through" or even "we need to discuss what we're going through". No, this is a far better, because we're "processing".)