{"id":9760,"date":"2014-07-20T19:20:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2014-07-20T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:20:49","slug":"teach-your-children-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/07\/20\/teach-your-children-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Your Children Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"JUSTICE-SYMBOL..\"<\/a><\/h6>\n

“Teach your children well,” memorable lyrics by Graham Nash. Seems that kind of advice would go a long way to keep the court system a little more under control.<\/p>\n

I finally finished my long tenure as a juror. It was a civil trial. That is, no real criminal laws were broken. It was a case of a business against a business, and more along the lines of poor judgment and iffy ethics. There was offense, to be sure. But a lot of it could have been avoided with some foundational principles established early, like in childhood.<\/p>\n

During the early days of the trial I found myself musing on certain proverbs I came across in a book by the same name, like:<\/p>\n

If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it. (26:27)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And:<\/p>\n

There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. (14:12)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m sure there wasn’t a person in that court, on either side, who didn’t feel justified in both thought and action.<\/p>\n

I won’t go into details. In the end we jurors had to decide. I can say this: When it was finally over, not everyone was satisfied.<\/p>\n

But I came away with the sense that, while the trial ended, it’s not over. The Lord has not necessarily had his say.<\/p>\n

Here’s another from Proverbs:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0man’s ways are in full view of the Lord;\u00a0he examines all his paths. (5:21)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We jurors will never learn of the ongoing fate of the parties involved. But we can know this:<\/p>\n

The Lord condemns a crafty man, but a good man obtains favor from the Lord. (12:2)<\/em>*<\/span><\/p>\n

That will hold, whether we learned it in childhood or not.<\/p>\n

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_________________<\/p>\n

*Quoted in reverse order<\/p>\n

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The court system, I found, isn’t perfect, but we have an idea there’s a higher order that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9775,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}