18:17 minutes (5.24 MB)
We wait for a variety of different people and organizations to provide a positive influence and a constructive direction for our lives:
• We invest phenomenal resources of time, energy and money into youth athletics, waiting for the adult mentoring and team camaraderie to shape our children. And then the arrest last week of a girl’s high school hockey coach for a sexual relationship with a 16 year-old team member leaves us wanting even of physical safety.
• We look to elected leaders to place concern for their constituencies ahead of partisan loyalties, waiting for issues of energy and health care and education and environment to be addressed. And then we watch the congressional session come to a close in incapacitating impasse.
