{"id":2312,"date":"2011-01-12T05:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2011-01-11T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:23:59","slug":"a-teacher-is-like-a-crazy-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/a-teacher-is-like-a-crazy-bowler","title":{"rendered":"A Teacher Is Like a Crazy Bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Bowling-pins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2321\" title=\"Bowling-pins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Bowling-pins-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bowling Pins\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An old Russian proverb says that God writes straight with crooked lines. Anyone who has taught in Catholic schools knows the truth of this. You can spend hours and hours on a lesson, only to have it fall apart in front of you in the classroom. And then the next day, after a lesson which you quickly pulled together with string and baling wire, a student will come up to you and say, &#8220;That was a great class. I never really thought about God like that before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like trying to bowl a strike, but ending up doing what this guy did on his third throw:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PjNF7HoQ6yY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You just never know what you&#8217;re going to hit. It may not be what you were aiming for, but with God&#8217;s grace, you&#8217;re going to hit something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old Russian proverb says that God writes straight with crooked lines. Anyone who has taught in Catholic schools knows the truth of this. You can spend hours and hours on a lesson, only to have it fall apart in front of you in the classroom. And then the next day, after a lesson which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/a-teacher-is-like-a-crazy-bowler\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Teacher Is Like a Crazy Bowler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-Bi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":651,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/teaching-health-care-reform-and-catholic-social-teaching","url_meta":{"origin":2312,"position":0},"title":"Teaching Health Care Reform and Catholic Social Teaching","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking for a relevant, current lesson to engage your students in learning about Catholic social teaching? 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