DMZ 4 - Confusious say, "Man who stand on toilet..."

This is the third bit o' toilet wisdom in the South Korean train station which stood so proudly and full of hope on the dividing line between the north and the south.  Yet again I was impressed by the profoundness that this bathroom displayed.  All these signs kind of  kept with a theme: you can have your brain washed and your hands washed all before leaving the bathroom.

At first glance this seems like a very practical bit of wisdom aimed directly at lumberjacks.  Without such advice maybe Paul would have been Babeless pretty quick.  Now, I don't know how much lumbering they do in Korea but if Confucius could eventually end up sending his advice to the world at large perhaps this bathroom could, too.

Anyway, on second glance there seems to be some other applications.

Political: very rarely does someone "big" in Washington surprise anyone.  They generally follow a party line, the crowd, or the voters.  In this arena I, like many other people I know are asking, if this tree falls in the woods, does anyone care?  Obviously we should care which direction our elected leaders fall, but what do we do when our "woods" are full of "trees" that we would never have planted?  That wasn't rhetorical - I really don't know.

Relational: I'm a parent.  It can't be helped that I'm concerned about which direction my children are leaning.  I think parents have the ability to greatly influence the leaning of our children - and I think we have a responsibility to do so.  The question is, what actions are we taking to influence them?  Regardless of how we answer that question, we will influence them.  Our inaction in this case may in fact be the biggest push that our developing adults receive toward falling in the wrong direction...  Again, what steps am I taking or not taking?  What steps should we be taking?  Why aren't we taking them?

Spiritual: Like the AF always says, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."  And like somebody else says, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."  And then there's always, "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority."  One of the amazing things about God is that He leaves it all up to us.  We get to choose.  The choice seems to be extremely easy, yet actually making the choice seems extremely hard.  However, we have the promise that if we intentionally lean toward God, He will show us the best way to live.  (John 7:17, Hebrews 11:6)  I'm going to daily make the choice to lean toward God, so that when it comes time for falling (which will surely come) I know I'll land in His hands.

Thank you again R-Toto for your wise thoughts.  Until the next time nature calls.