Warming up in Minnesota

Well, yes, since I’m posting in the middle of the day during a weekday, I’m not substituting today. However, I did get to do a good amount of substituting last week.

One of the movies I had to show to a Western Civilization class was Rabbit-Proof Fence. I would highly recommend it! While some of the scenes could have better lighting to see what was happening (or perhaps it was hard to see because we were watching it in a room that had some light coming in from the hall ways etc), the point and moral of the story was very powerful. It is a movie made in 2002 about the Aboriginals in Australia based in the 1930s. Without giving anything away, the striking part of the movie is that this was only a couple generations ago. The children in the movie could have been my grandparents. Of course, that is not to take away anything from all the struggles my grandparents had to go through, but I think these incidents show us we have come quite a long way in the last 80 years.

Weather update in Minnesota, we have reached the mid 50’s in the Twin Cities! Wow, it might as well be summer already! Although, one does not need 50 degree weather for shorts and t-shirts…30 degrees is warm enough for people around here!

Tidbit by Thomas: I was watching EWTN, the Catholic cable station, over the weekend, and I heard one of the well known commentators on there make a statement that struck me. He said, “We need to live in the moment.” For a second, I thought I may have been on the Buddhist station. But he repeated himself, “We need to live in this moment; we don’t need to worry about what the future may have for us.” The point he was making was something I guess I had known, but had never been able to put my finger on directly or had been able to express clearly myself. His point: God gives us enough grace for this moment; God give us the grace when we need it; God has taken care of us in the past and will take care of us in the future when we get there; in conclusion, if we don’t use the graces we are given for this moment, we are wasting God’s gift to us. SO once again, Catholicism and Buddhism cross similar paths….Live in the moment; there will not be another moment like it again.