If You Can't Trust Your Teacher, Who Can You Trust

Some of the best times I had growing up as a kid was spending time with my teachers outside of the classroom. I learned how to scout opposing Basketball teams because on some Friday nights, I would go with my sophmore basketball coach and classroom teacher to watch teams the Puyallup Vikings would play in future. We would show our league pass, buy some popcorn and sit up in the top bleacher of the gym at mid court and chart plays. As the evening wore on, not only did he teach me what to watch for, but we would also discuss life in general. When my father passed away in June of 07, one of the people I wanted to talk with was my high school debate teacher. Somehow a little part of me believed that if I just talked to "B" it would all make some sense. Never did get to, wish I had.
Where all this is leading is that thanks to a three judge Washington State appeals court ruling alot of todays kids may never get to have those memories. This afternoon the court ruled that it is not againist the law for a teacher to have sex with an 18 year old student. I will leave it to you to google the facts of the case, but the point is how many parents are going to become suspicious if their kids want to spend any quality alone time with any teacher with out red flags being raised in the back of their minds. What teacher is going to risk his or her career by offering to help a student with some quality one on one time after school. Or take them off school grounds to experience something unique like an opera or musical. How many kids will never get a chance to share, grow or learn something totally unique that only that teacher could have taught them.
Once again Christ called it, the foolish will be called wise in the eyes of humanity.

From Snow to Floods - Maintaining Order for the Rest of Us

Last time we got together we discussed how snow impacted the Seattle area. Yes we did have a white Christmas, which thrilled my wife. But now the snow is gone and we are dealing with flooding in our region.
In my last post I spoke of how the media would or would not cover the return of Christ. I want to take that same idea and go in a different direction.
Yesterday my wife and I had to travel detours becase one of the two main roads into our town was under water. It took us almost three hours to travel about 20 miles. So as I sat in traffic (the key word here is sat), I begain to look around and see how my fellow cars were dealing with the situation. Some were on cell phones, others by the movement of there heads were listening to music and one person took the law into his own hands, driving on the sholder of the road to not let cars pass and crowd in latter on down the road. Normally that kind of action is against the law and caries with it a fine of serveal hundred dollars. But last night, no one cared, because that man was our hero. Keeping order on a night when all anyone of us wanted to do was get home and out of this mess. He could have gone on ahead and crowded in, but instead he did the thing that was needed the most, keeping order for the rest of us.
Sometimes Christ calls us to ignore man's laws and strike out on our own for the betterment of society. I wonder when the time comes will we have the courage to do just that?