When my son came home from church camp just the other day one of the first things out of his mouth after we heard about the escapades of he and his other 12 year old buddies was the request for a new bible but this time he wanted a cheap bible and maybe a couple of cheap bible covers. He had taken the one we got him for his birthday, an expensive one I might add, to camp and to state the least it had taken a beating and he knew he should probably have been more careful. I think this was his way of heading off me getting upset with him for not being more careful. He’d had a great time but as young teen age boys will often do, he had been careless with his things and in this case it was his bible. The truth is I was happy he went to church camp and I would have gladly bought him one just to go and leave it there but now he knew he’d superior cover his butt so came the request for a new cheap bible with a cover or two so he would not have to take his good one next January to winter camp. You see his bible is important to him and what he has learned I think is that things that are important to you need to be taken care of. They need to be protected and cherished for sure. This translates to many aspects of life and hopefully he will make the mental association to things like relationships, assets, reputation and other valuable things. In reality my son asking for a new cheap RSV Bible was probably the ideal lesson I could have hoped for him to have learned about stuff at his camp. Obviously there were some other lessons that it would be good for him to learn at church camp but as far as lessons about stuff. This was definitely a good one.