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For campers 15 years of age and over who are accepting the challenge for understanding and concern for others.

A.

“Listen to the voice of God!
Around you! Within You! Listen!
He calls you to grow!
To stretch your mind with new knowledge;
To stretch your muscles with clean play and hard work;
To stretch your heart to include new friends;
To stretch your soul and fill it with
beauty and hope and great purposes!
Listen to the voice of God!”

B.

Thank you, God, for this new day in which to Grow.
For wondrous things, which, when this day is done, I shall know.
For each new face that I shall meet throughout this day,
And for the lessons I shall learn from all who come my way.
And thank you, too, for strange ideas I shall meet,
That call for my best efforts, lest I know defeat.
And if, sometime today, I seem to fail, help me to know,
Tomorrow’s still another day in which to grow!

C.

O, God, give me clean hands, clean words, and clean thoughts. Help me to stand for the hard right against the easy wrong. Save me from habits that harm. Teach me to work as hard and play as fair in Thy sight alone as if the whole world saw. Forgive me when I am unkind, and help me to forgive those who are unkind to me. Keep me ready to help others at some cost to myself and send me chances to do some good every day. Amen. D. Jesus said, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend. You are my friends if you do what I have commanded you.”

E.

Lord, make me and instrument of Thy peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury – pardon
Where there is doubt – faith
Where there is despair – hope
Where there is darkness – light
Where there is sadness – joy

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

F. Challenges to be Written:

Either alone or with the help of the Director or Ragger who is tying your Rag, write down a list of things you will work on as your personal challenge for the Blue Rag. (Turn in this list to your Camp Director.)

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