Abraham, Moses, Betty Crocker, and My Grandma

My grandma collected Betty Crocker points and traded them in for spoons. Abraham and Moses would have done the same thing.  She started out doing it for her granddaughters, and then she did it for camp. She was also a sinner—just like Abraham and Moses, and probably Betty Crocker. Many people don’t know it, but she was one of the driving forces behind camp—especially the search for our own camp facility. We had more than one conversation about the promised land, not having our own home, and having to clear everything out on the weekends between weeks of camp. She bought a plaque for a wall at our house that said, “faith is not knowing that the Lord can, it is knowing that he will.” I didn’t argue with her. She never stopped thinking about camp. She scoured the newspapers for real estate listings about land or camps and cut them out and stuck them in her magazine table by her chair—along with the recipes she was going to try out on us before serving them at camp in the summer and the Betty Crocker points. Actually, there were a lot of things in her magazine table. It was like my pockets when I was a kid. We all miss her very much. She didn’t get to see the building of the camp, but she always looked forward to the day it would happen. We were moving some things around in the storage shed and we found her spoons, along with the rest of the flatware she got for when we had our own camp, big boxes of them still wrapped in cellophane.

Hebrews 11:13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance…