It's all worth it in the end . . .

So my life the last week and a bit, has been well on a ranch. Quite the interesting place i tell ya. I do everything there, and when i say everything i mean everything. From washing dishes to cutting the grass, from cooking to cleaning the toilets, from painting a wagon to washing down the walls, and the list goes on, and yeah i'll admit while i was cleaning the filthy washroom, i was doing everything but smiling (literally turned my stomach). At that moment in time, i wasn't liking my life very much, and wished i was somewhere else, besides on my hands and knees scrubbing a rotten toilets. But a little while after i had completed this "wonderful" task, my eyes were open by a 5 year old. I was sitting on the step, pretty much hating my life, and she comes up to me, and says, "you did a great job today, here's a sucker for you" - she had this huge smile on her face. She said thank you for making the washroom clean for us. At that moment, it made it worth it, just to see the smile on her face.

This summer, i'm probably going to clean another few rotten toilets, wash more dishes, but in the end it will be worth it, seeing the smiles on the kids faces that come through the camp. Some of these kids come from pretty crummy homes and lifestyles, and this is our chance to give them a awesome week, and if that means i have to clean dirty toilets for hours, i'll do it, because in the end it's worth it.

My eyes had been opened by a 5 year, time to quit the complaining and be thankful for being able to clean a toilet, it might sound gross, but there are some people out there who probably wish they could do it, instead of being unable to. It's so easy to complaining rather then just doing the work, but next time i'm not gong to be as quick to complain about the hard work i have to do each day, but be thankful that i'm able to do it, because in the end, it will be worth it.

In the end . . . the dishes will be done . . . the grass will be cut . . . the food will be cooked . . . the toilets will be cleaned . . . the wagons will all be painted . . . and the walls will be clearned . . . in the end, lives will be touched . . . in the end, lives will be changed . . . in the end, it will be worth it.