Why I Got Not To

"I purely hate fighting," Josh said.  "Don't thee, Labe?"

"Not so much," Labe answered.

"I hate it," Josh said.  "That's why I got to."

"And I got not to," Labe said, "because I like it."

-From The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West

Laban and Josh are two Quaker brothers living during the Civil War, and they both choose whether or not to fight based on beliefs that have little to do with the war itself.  Hopefully, our teaching is just as filled with what we're doing as the soldiers' work was while our motives are just as eternal as that of Josh and Labe.

Updates:

• The first quarter of the school year ends next week, which means Amy and I will have been teaching for 10 weeks.  A lot of good opportunities have been realized.
• We're meeting with parents soon for parent-teacher conferences.  We hope that will be an evangelical opportunity as much as an educational opportunity.
• We're heading to Brownsberg, a mountain in the interior, next weekend, to do some hiking, sight-seeing, and other kinds of grown-up playing in the jungle.