We were joining several other churches for youth camp the following summer. It was 1993. We had reserved Country Camp, just outside of Columbus, TX, as our location. It was Spring, and about 7 or 8 of us youth ministers, along with a couple of the guest leaders, were meeting at the camp to plan the theme and activities for the week.
Most of us were already friends and those that weren’t, had some connection to the group and bonds were quickly formed. As par for the course, we talked and laughed and planned well into the early hours of the morning.
When we retired to sleep in the cabins - you know, check them out for a night, know where the kids would be sleeping - we quickly discovered that there were no windows. NO windows! No windows meant that when the lights were turned off, it was DARK. As it, can’t see your hand in front of your face, dark. And of course who would have thought to bring nightlights???
Lee Ann and I were the only ones in our cabin. David, John, and the rest of the guys were in another. The plan was for us all to drive back to our churches the next morning.
There was a knock on our door. I can’t remember which one of us stumbled our way through the darkness to open it, but the sunshine blinded us when the door opened. It was 11:30am! Luckily, one of the guys had waken up, because all of the rest of us had overslept! With no way for the daylight to creep into the cabins, and all of us being up so late, we had completely slept the morning away.
Nothing bad happened other than all of us getting back to our offices quite a bit later than we had planned. But I will never forget the feeling of falling asleep in complete and utter darkness.
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