Yesterday, I ate lunch with a 3rd grader from Grace at Orchard View Elementary (thanks, again, for the mini pancakes, Megan:)) I love eating lunch with our kids, because I get to know them and their world in a different way than I can in Kid City. I even got to interact with a Muslim boy yesterday and hopefully was able to share Jesus' love with him. Today, I was reading a magazine article ("K Magaizine") about new technology being used in public schools. Apparently, 5 schools in Texas piloted a program last spring that was able to take digital pictures of a student's tray of food before and after they ate and then report to their parents how many calories they're eating and what healthy options are being left on the tray.
It's a cool idea for sure, well advanced from the lunchroom experience I remember as a kid, but do we need to invest billions of education dollars to let us in on the big secret that today's kids eat too much junk food? Is that really news to anyone? Instead of re-analyzing a problem we already know about, we would better use our time and resources to help find a solution!!
That is a lesson for life. Choose today to stop re-diagnosing all the problems with our lives, our spouses, our kids, our communities, our world, and let's start working and praying for solutions. Are you a solution focused person?
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