Wednesday at the Inn

In spite of my best efforts I have failed miserably to blog consistently.  Tonight finds me at a Country Inn and Suites in Tucson, Arizona, with Penny.  I attended SHACS school board meeting earlier tonight.  Tomorrow I am at SHACS and DVCS for observations and another school board. It is amazing the level of sacrifice required to keep a school alive when the trends and indicators have turned south.  I watch these school board members dealing with run-of-the-mill tasks that are anything but that in the challenging context in which they must function.  But they refuse to fold.  They press on in spite of the many challenges.

The challenges facing our schools are bigger than the local churches that support them.  That statement has been repeated ad nauseam but to little, if any, avail.  Many churches have gone into survival mode as well, and they cannot fathom how they can be expected to help rescue the educational system from imploding.  It is a matter of time before this will happen unless we change the way we conduct business, locally and as a system.  If our schools go, soon the churches will follow. 

But not unlike those involved in other more mundane pursuits, there is a reluctance to act without concern for the personal cost.  There is however, in its place, a willingness to pass the challenge along to the next generation to address, when it may be too late to rescue.

I must cling to the belief that God is in control, even when humans are clutching to the helm and moving closer and closer to a catastrophe.  In any case, here I am in Tucson.  Good night! (221)