Prayer Request

My friend, housemate, confrere, frequent commenter and first-year teacher Jeana just began at a local Catholic high school two months ago. This morning, while at the monastery, she received a phone call that one of her kids was killed. Apparently, an (uninjured) senior has been arrested for driving drunk and having drug paraphernalia; she ran into a car being driven by a junior (who was announced dead at the scene) with a junior passenger (who is currently hospitalized).

Jeana thinks she may have helped the senior driver once, and also thinks she might teach her sister; she didn't have the name or anything of the girl who was hospitalized. The guy who was killed, though, was one of her top kids. Either way, as the only junior religion teacher ...... she's got one hell of a time ahead of her. And then once you add the nun-factor in ......

So for her, for the school, for the family and friends, for the girl now in jail .... and for an end to all these stupid decisions that leave people pointlessly dead.

I always tell my kids that their assignment over the weekend is to "Be Smart" .... unfortunately, it doesn't always work if the other people out there don't play the same way.