Tony, I too sometimes get to busy doing Ranger things. My wife pulls me
back into the family and it seems to be a balance thing that I contantly
have to keep aware of. Yes Rangers is the Ministry I am called to. Yes
it has priority and I do something Ranger Wise most every day...
As every ministry can do if we don't keep balance. This is the tricky
part. I know some guys whose balance is one ranger outting a year others
15 plus outtings. Each one of us have a balance we have to adjust on a
sometimes Daily basis.
One thing I have learned. When my wife starts calling for attention. I
make myself stop and turn towards her and spend some time with her and
our two kids. I have learned in my case that I can be a workaholic,
Rangeraholic, Hobbyaholic, ComputerNerdaholic... and so on but if my wife
isn't happy it is as dust in the wind. It doesn't come easy to me. It
is a stugle I deal with. Rest assured. God, Wife, Family, Rangers...and
of importance is me if the rest of these items are in perspective then I
am happy as well.
God Bless you Commander. Pick the outtings you can make and let God
provide for those you can't make.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Mark Jones, Ozark MO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Download a Royal Ranger Database
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:52:10 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hi all,
>
>On Tuesday we had our Sectional Staff meeting, which I attended.
>There seems to be a disagreement between my outpost and at least two
>other outposts about the amount of sectional camp outs that are
>scheduled this year. Our section has an average of one camp out
>scheduled per month, for the rest of the year. So why am I raising a
>stink about this? Last month, I was gone for three weekends in a row
>on Ranger camp outs. Needless to say, by the end of the third week of
>camping I was wiped. I think what really concerns me is, my wife
>started to complain about me "always being away on Ranger events, and
>leaving her at home." (since we only have one car, I usually use it to
>haul Rangers and equipment to and from events). This obviously
>concerns me. I love Rangers with all my heart, but I don't love it
>more than my family. When I tried to explain this to the other
>commanders at the Sectional Staff meeting, all I got was Commanders
>rolling their eyes and looks of, Do we really have to listen to this.
>
>Where do we draw the line between not enough and too much? When do we
>get to the point where we look at the schedule and say, "Wow, I think
>we over scheduled this year, can't we postpone some of this?" The
>response I got from some of the commanders was, "well them don't go!"
>but what they fail to realize is, two points
> 1. I'm the Health and safety Officer for the section, I am
>suppose to be there, although I can get a substitute if need be.
> 2. If either the Sr. Commander or I don't go, the boys can't
>go. Our outpost doesn't have the man power to take all of the boys to
>all of the events. Usually the Sr. Commander and I can handle it, but
>if one of us cannot make it, then we have a problem.
>
> So, what do I do as a commander, and what do we do as an
>outpost.
>
> Let me add a P.S. here. Our outpost has a camp out scheduled
>one a month for our boys. These camp outs ranger from a winter camp
>(we just finished it last month) to a backpacking trip (this is our
>next camp out). We want to get the boys out as an outpost as much as
>we can to try to get our boys to work together, which it is already
>starting to do.
>
>Cmdr. Tony Bredow
>Outpost 238
>Poway, CA
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