The past two times I took my children to the local pool, someone almost drowned. Both days I swam with my children in a small pool with a paid lifeguard on duty. Both days the lifeguards vigorously enforced the pool's rules - no running, no children in the hot tub, and so forth. And both days, when one of my boys walked into water over their head and thrashed about gasping for air, the lifeguards didn't notice and didn't even stir in their seats.
In some ways, this scene reminds me of well-informed liberal America. Most people in the circles I run have highly developed, acceptable opinions about the world we live in. They can speak forcefully global health care inequity, public health disparities in the United States, or the root causes of East African piracy. My friends and acquaintances tend to carefully cultivate and express right opinions. They know the rules!
But I wonder if when a child is drowning, they notice or stir. My pastor sometimes says that God couldn't care less about our opinions, that our actions are of much greater import. I couldn't agree more. I really don't care what opinions I have, or anyone else has, about child sex trafficking. I want us to stop it!
Thursday I biked 14 miles. Yesterday I biked 8 and ran 6.
TOTAL
Ran - 25 miles
Biked - 83 miles
Benched - 22,910 pounds
Raised - $315
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