If you think graduating your children from pre-school is hard, just think what it’s like to graduate your teenager from high school, only to be shipped off to college or the armed services. Parents invest so much in their children that they can easily become more than children, more like little gods. Everything revolves around them, your sense of worth, success, and joy.
With such strong, understandable (but woefully satisfactory) temptations, how do you send your children off to school or their next stage in life? Here’s how, from a graduation invitation from a family in our church:
What are we to think of Obama’s appointment of Elena Kagan? Who is she? Where does she stand on issues? These are the questions that a lot of people are raising. It’s generally agreed that she is liberal judge, but it’s unclear where she stands on a number of controversial issues. What we do know is that Kagan has an impeccable reputation. She is a consummate legal teacher and brilliant scholar. A real Ivy Leaguer. What’s not to like?
