Kids & Winning!

Okay, in reading back to back articles from Freakonomics Blog I am not sure if I want my kids spread apart (which the blog says increases their chances of becoming smarter)becuase according to Freakonomics it will raise their chance of becoming a crack heads (again according to Freakonomics)

I believe this to be a situation where you offically cannot win!

Grace and Penn State

Its been a long time since I have broken out the keyboard and blogged. However, I did a post for my small group and thought it could technically be a blog post. Therefore, I decided to post. Here was my email to my small group.

I don’t know how many of you have been following the Penn State debacle, but it’s been on my mind (probably because the entire sports world has an opinion and won’t stop talking about it). While reading an article about “Occupy Wall Street” I read the comment below, and thought it could be applied to multiple issues, circumstances, and especially Penn State like situations that surround us. The articles stated:

“Contemporary American life has become, in so many ways, a spectator sport. We pass judgment on the lives of others without much self-reflection and often without full knowledge of the complexities involved. Doing so gives us a measure of self-assurance in the moral strength of our own character. Such self-assurance may indeed be self-deception.”

While I by no means wish to lift up, defend, or stand by Penn State or Joe Paterno, I have noticed how many people are ready to pass judgment on them without reflecting on their own lives, or actions they partake in. I think back to my own ignorance in with regards to sex trafficking, (as a side, note check out this video I recently saw in regards to trafficking http://vimeo.com/31795904 ), modern day slavery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y882AajKo1s&feature=player_embedded even chocolate it compromised), and the many other social issues that I indirectly take part in, or support without realizing the effect the implications of my actions. Where I am aiming to lead in this post, is to a place of self-reflection. We all sin and fall short. While it is easy to pass judgment, lifting ourselves up while putting others down, I have been reminded of the sinner that I am and the grace I have been given. As I understand it, as Christians, we are to share that grace with the world.

My prayer is that I am able to give a little more grace to the world, and by doing so be a light for Christ today.