Youth Stories - February 11th 2025
My standards for events are not always high. I told one of my friends that my sole metric for success at this year's Super Bowl party was that Rocky does not get beat up. The reason being was that last year's Super Bowl party he did. It was innocent enough. Boys were goofing off and one thing led to another and one student felt like the rough housing had gotten too rough and so fists flew. No one was truly hurt, but it was still unpleasant nevertheless. This year, zero fights. Great success. Success is hard to measure in a job that deals with incorporeal things like morality, ethics, and spirituality. There is no hard data and even things like attendance doesn't demonstrate if the church is doing what it's supposed to be doing. Because of that it's hard sometimes to know if I'm doing a good job. I can't always speak to the efficacy of my work, but I can speak to its complexity. I sat in a lengthy meeting about an event that transpired over 8 months ago. It w...