Matthew chapter 7 - The parable of the wise and foolish builders. Wouldn't it have been great to sit on the hillside and listen to Jesus tell these stories himself?
On this day:
1973 - I had bought two houses by the time I was 25. The first one was in Detroit and I let Don have the house after the divorce. The second house was a nice little house in Birmingham. My friend Waynette moved in with me for a while and then decided she wanted her own house. On this day we went with the real estate agent and looked at the house on 14 Mile that she bought. It was quite a feat in those days for young single women to purchase homes! Yay us!
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight. did his ear grow back?
Parenting - The discussion on TV was about the teenage girl that was an honor roll student that got kicked out of school for the rest of her senior year for carrying a knife in her purse. Here are some discussion points. If she had stabbed someone, even in self defense would the school have come under fire? Is it important how that knife came into her possession? Was the punishment too severe? or not? Was there a rule on the books already about this behavior?
Book writing - I can tell you that some laws were much more relaxed when I was a kid growing up and some punishments were much more punitive. If you got in trouble there is an excellent chance you would catch hell and never have an opportunity to sue anyone. Good conversation starter there too.
Ethiopia: Crime and punishment
Although Ethiopians have long depended on written laws, the criminal legal system observed at the time of the 1974 revolution was of relatively recent origin. The first integrated legal code, the Fetha Nagast (Law of Kings), was translated from Arabic in the mid-fifteenth century. Attributed to a thirteenth-century Egyptian Coptic scholar, it was inspired by the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), the New Testament, canons of the Christians' early church councils, Roman civil law, and tenets of Quranic law. However, the Fetha Nagast applied only to Christians. Muslims who became subject to Ethiopian rule through conquest continued to be judged in their own courts according to sharia law (see Islam, ch. 2). Also, outside the ordinary judicial system, clan and tribal courts exercised unofficial but effective coercive powers, and people rarely appealed their decisions to regular courts.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
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