I remember watching an episode of Oprah last season about our education system and that our govornments spend more money per inmate in prison than per student in the public school system. This statistic disgusts me, we are holding murders, rapists, theives, etc in higher regard than our own children and those who are the future of our nation.
This week however, it has taken a new meaning. It is very sad that one is probably much safer in a prison building than a public school. Seriously, three deadly school shootings in the last week?! What is wrong here? Something has to be done! I expect our respective state and federal govornments to get together and come up with a plan to prevent this. If it's metal detecters in every doorway at a school building then so be it. It no longer believe it is up to the individual school districts to pay for such installments. It's a matter of National safety and interest and should be provided by the government. Its absurd, and an outrage that we have let this go on as long as it has! So far the war in Iraq has cost our federal govornment $331 billion dollars. Maybe we should advert some of our war spendings to ensuring the safety of our children. I want a solution. Bush, Blagojevich, Obama, Durbin...get off your a$$es and come up with one!
Monday, October 02, 2006
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Metal detectors require electricity...the Amish girls would still be dead.
We all want answers, Nathan, but the government can only band-aid the wound...more money for school security is only a temporary fix--you can only hold your finger on the severed artery of morality for so long. Only God can fix this wound...and, as His body, it falls on us to point the way. And I would venture to guess that His way is NOT through more government spending...
I agree with you on the Amish point. It wouldn't have helped.
However, I still feel that the government has their priorities out of whack when it comes to where they are spending their money (prisoners/students debate). I'm also generally not one to believe(although it's easy to at times) that our country has gone down the drain and Christians should give up and wait for Christ's return. But when you hear of stories like these one after another, it causes me to question why things like this are allowed to happen.
As a human I want to do something. Something tangible I guess I should say.. The Christians of the world can unite and pray til their knees are blue that things like this don't continue, but there will always be evil in this world. Like I said when things like this happen you wonder what the plan is, and begin to follow our human nature of fixing it ourselves.
We can continue to reach out and pray for those who need Christ, but the world isn't going to change overnight. I guess I just feel that by something such as enhanced security being in place, we are also helping to fix the problem(as temporary of a fix at it may be).
I would NEVER advocate "giving up and waiting"...I want to do something, too. Prayer is only the starting point--I don't know what the specific next step is, but I DO know that 1) we can't just pray and leave it at that, because God tells us to "GO", not sit around and wait for Him to return and 2) trusting in the government to provide a fix pretty much equates to #1. :-)
My heart is broken every day by things I see, mostly at my workplace. And I think "I'm just one person--what can I do?" But, God reminds me I AM one person...a person with a unique platform from which to speak into the lives of some really sad, broken people. I'm sure I fail at that most of the time. But SOMETIMES, I don't.
I believe it just comes down to walking out our faith in our everyday lives. Pray, absolutely. GO and DO, most definitely. But listen first of all, so we're not guilty of following our human nature.
2 Chronicles 7:14...
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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