Lessons Learned

A hurting little girl confided in her teacher today.   Evil must exist because it is the only explanation for why an adult would hurt a tender innocent child. The ugliness of the world found my school today. I know what to do when evil finds my school.  I know the phone calls to make and process to follow.   I know how to comfort the teacher and how to facilitate the situation with families.   I will always protect my children.  What most people don't know is that after all the teachers leave,  I close my office door and cry because children are not suppose to hurt in such unspeakable ways. I use to grab my steering wheel on the way home from school and cry out, "Why God why?"   I demanded to know why such horrific situations would find a child.   Time has taught me that God doesn't cause children to hurt.  An evil so ugly is the only explanation to explain abuse and neglect. God was at school today.  The Lord put the teacher at...

If you want to understand a person, understand their hobbies.  My interpretation, right or wrong, is that people have hobbies that reflect their personality.   My wife is flower gardener and it fits her personality of wanting to add beauty to the life of others.  My Dad likes to complete and frame jigsaw puzzles.  It fits his personality of putting parts together to make something useful. My Uncle Carl passed away a few months back.   Like his brothers and sisters, he overcame the loss of his mom at a young age, the object poverty of the depression, and a father who found sobriety to be a challenge. At an age when most boys were still playing, my Uncle started to carve out a life for himself.  Entering the Korean War as a solider, he saw the horrific aspects of war.  The type of action that a solider never mentions.  He served with honor. My Uncle Carl came home from war and carved out a life for himself and his family.   H...