{"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":"

\"Bowling<\/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, “That was a great class. I never really thought about God like that before.”<\/p>\n

It’s like trying to bowl a strike, but ending up doing what this guy did on his third throw:<\/p>\n

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You just never know what you’re going to hit. It may not be what you were aiming for, but with God’s grace, you’re going to hit something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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