Sunday, August 28, 2011

Observations while substitute teaching

We are not raising our children for dominion.  Implied in dominion is a resistance.  We must take dominion. From who?  There are dominions, authorities, and powers that resist this dominion.  We need to train for war.  By not training for war, we bring it upon us.  We make its coming worse by believing we can avoid it by never mentioning it, forbidding it to be spoken of, by speaking of it as human tragedy of the past.  A peaceful oppression, an unresisted march of tyranny is a tragedy.  In war there are individual tragedies but within a national glory.

Without the gaol of dominion boys are restless and unmotivated, unaware of the challenges they may face.  Without the threat of opposition, girls are arrogant and unproductive, mot understanding that monsters are real.