Someone you look up to, trust, admire will someday let you down in a big way. I've heard this before, I've felt it before, but this is probably the "biggest" incident of it I have ever experienced.
I found out last night that one of the supervisors I worked with in my first stint with Child Welfare has been charged by the federal government with child pornography.
I kind of can't think of anything more heinous.
You always think you'd get a creepy feeling about someone who would do something like that. I didn't ever, ever, ever get a creepy feeling with this man. I really thought of him as a sweet old grandfatherly type.
You just never know, and right now, I don't know what that means. Do I just live my life, hoping that most of the time I would "know" if someone I knew was doing something like this? Should I become hypervigilant? I mean, probably not. I was probably never personally going to find out anything about this guy that was going to bring his crime to light.
I guess for me, it brings home something that I thought about often in high school. Role models are there for us to show us something about God. (At least, in the way I practice my own spirituality). Role models are not there to BE God, and if we put them on a pedestal, they are going to let us down simply by not being perfect.
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