What goes around...

We have a saying in the USA, "What goes around comes around."

I just read a short article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about how FACULTY misbehave in faculty meetings.  Because this is the beginning of the academic year in the US, such meetings are rampant during this season.

The article noted that the things of which faculty complain about students in class:

• Sleeping,
• Checking email and FaceBook, 
• Working on other stuff, and
• Generally seeming disinterested,

                                                                                ...was also true of faculty in faculty meetings.

Sadly, I must say this hypocrisy is indisputably true, though perhaps to a smaller degree, only because we don't spend as much time in meetings as students do in class.

Which of course, brings us to the subject of sin.  I read recently that we are quick to condemn those sins that we think are not tempting to us.  Turns out that we even condemn those sins of which we ourselves are guilty.

Paul, the apostle, said something of extreme value to faculty and others,  "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief (1 Timothy 1:15 KJV).

Paul must have been thinking of me...