The Karate Kid & Jett Travolta

Last night, my youth group and I watched part of the original "Karate Kid" movie. We saw how the instructor (I can't spell his name) was teaching Daniel karate, but it was an unusual way of teaching. At first, he'd tell Daniel to wax his cars, paint his house and fence, and sand his floors. It's amazing that Daniel kept coming back, even though this didn't seem like karate. After the instructor came back from fishing while Daniel spent the day painting his house was the only time he lost his patience. This is when Daniel put his 'skills' to work; he saw that those techniques he used to do the household chores actually helped him to block- he knew karate! It just goes to show, you can learn the most important things in the most unusual places

Our youth group leader told us that God works like this; even though we can't see it, he actually teaches us something whether we know it or not. He also said life is like a hall of mirrors or those mazes you see made of bushes. It's hard to get through them because you don't know where you're going and you keep bumping into those things. It'd be easier to see it from the top, right? Well, God does, and that is how he helps us get through the maze or hall, i.e. life.

Onto another subject, I'm sure you've all heard that, days after the new year started, John Travolta's son, Jett, died of a fatal seizure while on vacation. It's tragic to lose a child at any time. However, the media has been quick to speculate if Jett's apparent kawasaki disease is the real reason behind this. People are already gossiping that he was autistic. It's one thing to start rumors like this when he is alive. But, come on, he just died. Have some respect. We shouldn't need to care about how he died. Can't we just say how tragic this is for the family and move on? Go easy on the family and don't start gossip about Jett; he just died for goodness sake!