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After discussing how students must at least be competent in reading, writing, listening, analyzing and computing before they will be graduated from high school in 1978, one administrator contacted provided the the following list. The excuses it contains were actually turned in by parents to one school district (outside of Tillamook County).
1. Dear school: Please excuse John for bring absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33.
2. Chris has an acre in his side.
3. Mary could not come to school because she is bothered by very close veins.
4. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken off his face.
5. I kept Billie Home because he had to go Christmas shopping because I didn't know what size she wear.
6. My son is under the doctors care and should not take P.E. Please execute him.
7. Please excuse Joyce from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday she fell out of a tree and misplaced her hip.
8. Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.
Becoming a victim of oops (EXCUSES) can lead us to dilute ourselves.
When
my daughter, Joy, was still a child, she had a playmate who was always
changing the rules of whatever games they were playing. And she always changed the rules to her advantage so, of course, she always won. She’s a grown woman today, and I imagine she’s still doing the same.
Oopsism people do that. Oops, they think, I don’t like the way this is working out so I think I’ll change the rules. Moral rules. Financial rules. Political rules. Any rules. That way, the person doesn’t have to change, the rules have been changed instead.
If there is a cure for Oopsism it is taking God seriously. It is not casually thinking after an accident or an incident, Well, there’s nothing I can do about it. And besides it wasn’t my fault. Fate is against me…. My fellowman is against me…. My human nature is against me. . . People just don’t understand me.
No, if there is a cure for Oopsism it is seeking God with the same intensity that the unbeliever denies Him. It is certainly not committing the ultimate sin of indifference. It is rather letting Christ make a difference.
It
is admitting with heart, mind and soul that Christianity needs moral
giants, not pygmies who squirm a little and then go on their merry way.
A governor named Felix once said to the Apostle Paul, “When I have a convenient season I will call for thee.” But it never was convenient to call for Paul. It never was convenient to learn more about Christ and then put Christ’s teaching into practice. “Oops,” said Felix, “I meant to do something about it, but I never got around to it.”
The devil loves that kind of response. When
human beings use the excuse that something was inconvenient and that’s
why they didn’t do it, the devil literally dances a jig. Indeed,
more good deeds and noble ideas have died on the vine because of this
one excuse than almost any other reason that can be named.
QUOTES FROM SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING (Serialization of One of Neil’s book that can be found on his other blog Wyrick’s Writings)
I almost drowned once. It is
a terrifying experience. One gets very used to breathing. I had taught
swimming in summer camp. Passed the Red Cross Life Saving course.
Water-skied 50 miles an hour. Now I found I could not even stand to have the water flow over my face when I took a shower.
So I had two choices. Give in to my fear or fight it.
I
fought it. Stuck my head in a few inches of water in a basin for five
seconds, then ten and finally a minute. I kept working on my private
demon until one day, six month later, I was behind a ski boat with ski
rope in hand. I was filled with panic, not just fear. I skied anyway. I
fell and did not drown. I began to overcome the anxiety.
I
refused to have a love affair with fear that could have become a
permanent downer. Did I completely conquer my fear? No. Was I better off
than if I had given in? Definitely.
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number of years ago two scientists conducted an experiment with a
sheep. They tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the
midst of other sheep. Then at regular intervals they would send an
electric shock through the wire making the leg twitch. The sheep’s
behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely,
twitching appendage and all. Then the scientists added another factor.
They
began to ring a bell ten seconds before they administered the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to demonstrate all
the symptoms of severe anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad
to worse. He couldn't sleep. He took to avoiding the other sheep. He
became highly nervous and agitated.
It is
the same with all the people who every day promise themselves it is
going to be a bad day, and then work very hard at making their prophecy
come true.
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It
is one thing to know what should be done. It is always something else
to do it. Surmise then that his Bible knowledge offered
motivation-thoughts such as “Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding.”2
Part of his education would today be called survival school. As in all
pioneer families, the possibility of disaster was never far away.
There were no guarantees when a farmer walked out his door come morning
time that he would come back through that same door when dusk arrived.
Abe once killed a hundred snakes no more than a hoot and a holler from
the family doorstep.
The
thick, dark woods held bears ready to attack and Indians to scalp.
Homesteaders early learned to sometimes walk backwards rather than
forwards. That way, an Indian up to no good, coming upon footprints on
the forest floor, would be confused as to which way his intended victim
might be going. Even in church every man had a rifle by his side while
others outside stood guard.
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