Sunday, Sunday can't beat that day

Diane and I had a bit of a rest this weekend and a great meal at Mano's in Saskatoon the place I went to get Diane supper several times while she was in the hospital for over 3 months waiting to deliver our last baby. We also had an oppertunity to share about the ranch with several couples and then head to Kindersley.

Home again from Jacquie and Terry's this morning and we made it in time this morning to meet the family at church. As Diane and I travel we always tune into News Talk Radio to get our news fix. This morning they talked about schools and the out of control school drop out rate, also about the enormous amount of money paid out to administrations. Yet as far as the students go we are loosing the battle to keep them in school just to get them through to grade twelve, and heaven forbid they may even find out that they have a purpose, and have been gifted in some way that they could get a job that they enjoy and could support a family, buy a home and be an asset to society and their communities. The radio program also talked about about a school in Westfalin Germany the area where my brother lives and the school there has raised the level of students that graduate and become productive and have purpose to 98%. WOW how do they do that, we are thinking as we drive down the highway. At one point Diane tried to ask me a question and I was a bit short, I did not want to miss hearing how this school did this. Well wouldn't you know the secret to their success was to give the students an opportunity to learn life skills and a trades but then also to pay them. The students would go to school for so many days and then spend the other days at their job placement learning a trade. Can you believe that here in our communities we would rather bring workers in from other countries to work and just let our youth rot. We have become so absorbed with profit, profit, power, power image, image control, control that no one is looking for a solution to our situation heaven forbid it may cost us some of our power money. Well if we don't start to direct and help our next generation to move our society ahead we will all be the losers and it's not too late. The ranch is all about training the next generation to build us into a strong society with strong families and communities. Blessings to you all from Diane and Harold please pray for us this week.