tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35583920.post1811513679382667936..comments2024-03-10T01:57:07.008-05:00Comments on what I meant to say: virginia techdave workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068663095945094946noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35583920.post-72046259285719681592007-04-20T22:48:00.000-04:002007-04-20T22:48:00.000-04:00Dave, thank you for the call to prayer. You know ...Dave, thank you for the call to prayer. <BR/><BR/><BR/>You know me, and typically I am not the kind of guy that believes that if you peek around every corner you will find demonic activity, but there is something foul definitely lashing out at the youth in America. This week we had a bomb threat at school. It was serious enough to involve several agencies—not just our local crisis response team. One of those guys let slip that there have been more of these in the region this week than you can count on both hands, but they are keeping things hushed to try to curb the “copy-cat” effect. The thing is. . .I am not too sure that this is the dynamic here at all. To flip a phrase, I think there is something out there trying to SCARE THE HELL INTO OUR KIDS. <BR/><BR/>You know the history of the place I teach at and even the experience I was in a few years ago. We have had our share of chaos—in spades. In the past, while we always handle these situations seriously, the kids were actually pretty resilient and generally within hours some levity returns to the classroom after everything is over, usually when one of the kids cracks a joke about someone wanting to miss a math test. You might need to be a school employee or a kid to understand why this is important to recovery. What is really frightening is that this is happening with less and less frequency. Their spiritual and emotional rubber bands don’t have any more elasticity. What I am trying to say here is that there is now a compounding influence of stress and the residue of violent evil that is attacking the very core of what it is to be youngster. I am looking at kids that are walking around as if they are already in middle age. It needs to stop. We need to pray and pray hard.Ken Glassmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943120751579828928noreply@blogger.com