These are tenets of the Christian faith that we teach each and every day at First Baptist School. And they are among the hardest of things to do day in and day out. For we are people of prejudice. ALL of us! My students had a brief study of the Holocaust--that terrible time in the 1930s and 1940s when Hitler and the German Nazis persecuted, tortured, and killed between 10 and 12 million people because of their faith, their ethnicity, their disabilities, or their life style choices. We visited the Houston Holocaust Museum and learned more about the events of that period of time. It wasn't a 'fun' field trip. It wasn't intended to be. These young people are the leaders of the future and I hope that each of them will take the lessons learned and do their best to prevent another Holocaust. I hope that each of them will practice tolerance and understanding toward those who are different--be it different skin color, different cultural heritage, different religion, different choice of lifestyle. It's not necessary to agree with those who are different from us but it is necessary to be human and compassionate and to think that well worn phrase 'what would Jesus do?'
The FUN part of the day was visiting the Weather Center museum, also in downtown Houston. We had a nice young lady (a meteorologist) who provided our students with a tour of the facility. This museum is housed in a re-purposed historic home and it had a back yard. We were able to enjoy our picnic lunch on the premises.
Thanks to Mrs. Perry for driving, for the moms who went along, and to St. Paul's United Methodist Church for allowing us to park our bus in their parking lot.
