Not a Kodak Moment

"This is not a kodak moment."
The Genesis Land experience. A delicious meal served in a large tent surrounded by new friends my husband and I met on a tour. Hissop tea, dried fruit, chicken, couscous - a meal fit for special visitors to Abraham's tent. Oh, and a camel ride.
I mentioned the camel ride in Camels and Courage. But that was my camel time. My husband, Joseph had his own.
He decided from the get -go that he wasn't going to ride a camel. He'd walk to the tent, thank you very much. No amount of my, "but honey do it for me" was going to change his mind.
We were choosing our partners for the ride, and it came down to a young 16 year old gal and a 20 something IV Pharmacist. The 16 year old was ready to go. Miss IV didn't want to ride a camel. Not like my husband, who just had no desire to do the tourist thing - no, she was terrified. We're talking panic attack terror.
And then, Joseph had one of those moments - the ones where you know God is telling you to do something. No voices from above - just that inner sense that you've been communicated with.
Joseph volunteered to ride with Miss IV. With much encouragement that he would be behind her the whole time, she reluctantly climbed into the saddle. The camel lurched up and with a cry she said, "this is not a kodak moment!" There were times, my husband told me later, that he feared she would loose it altogether and no telling what would have happened. But he talked her through the whole ride.
She thanked him over and over and afterwards, called him her life saver.
We all need those people in our lives from time to time, and hopefully we can be one of those people for someone else.