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tender

This summer, I have been in the habit of saying "tender" a lot. Ask my co-counselor, Gail, and she'll tell you it was probably my most commonly-used word of term four. It is very fitting at K1 in nearly all the moments- at the swim meet while Gail and Alex consoled nervous campers, in Bible class as a girl passionately explained that her cracked-open Crayola paint holder was a safer habitat for a roly-poly which would no doubt be trampled if left in the wild, during tuck-ins as girls confided their prayer requests, and during the day when a cabin two cutie would stick her fingers up in the air to test if I could really see without my glasses (50/50 on that one). "Tender"ness is not hard to come by at K1, or any Kanakuk Kamp (though it is sometimes harder to find at the Kamps with moody teenagers). Tenderness (n.): Gentleness and kindness One of Jesus's main, most beautiful attributes is His tenderness, but it can be deceptively hard to see. Hard because...