Choose Your Heroes With Care At this year's Stanford Baccalaureate address, Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, spoke on the need for leadership; she quoted a Sufi Master who taught his disciples one thing only, "If you want to smell sweet, stay close to the seller of perfumes." The Sister charged the graduates that the people you idolize "will be the measure of your own character, your own ideals, your own legacy." Think about the people you admire and how they have helped to share your character. And I wonder who the heroes are of this generation. Not long ago, we heard children say that they wanted to 'be like Mike' and to grow up to be like Michael Jordan. The pantheon of heroes today would include other famous sports figures, people from cinema, and certainly the titans of industry.
If our children are to grow up to be compassionate and caring, if they are to grow up to choose people over profits, and values over expedience, then my vote is that they grow up seeking to follow Jesus of Nazareth. The could do worse; I can't think how they could do better.
In faith,
Pastor Tim
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"As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no leaders object, and no leaders rebel, those wrongs will last forever."
Clarence Darrow
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