Good evening... I'll quickly go over the message behind the second chapter of The Twelfth Window... I hope your weekend was great!

I used this chapter to give my commentary on religious education.  Having taught Sunday school two years ago and weekday religious education back in 1993, I can tell you that it is quite obvious that the Holy Spirit is definitely working towards the building up of the Kingdom of God on earth.  The kids are naturally restless, there seems to be a sort of chaos at intra-class events, teachers are flustered, and the educational materials can seem a little corny.  What a humble Lord we serve!  More than once, I thought a bolt of lightning should have decimated the classroom.  But God knows His children.  Contrast those scenes with my two visits to Vatican City or my weekly dose of TBN and Word Network viewership.  Somewhere back in the day along the way, one of those unruly kids in Sunday school went on to lay the foundation for Vatican City, paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and start a powerful Christian network to spread the Gospel.  We worship an awesome God, indeed! 

True, the seeming amateurishness of Sunday school is proof to an unbeliever that there cannot possibly be a God.  The seeming uncool-ness of those who give their time to teach the Christian faith is echoed in the second chapter. 

Lisa is told at the start to not bring up "that question" again.  I leave it to the reader's imagination to guess what the question was.  Can what is being preached match up to her personal experience of the divine?  I think adults have this problem more than the kids.  Lisa shows respect and deference to her parents and her religious instructors.  On another level, I meant this chapter to refer to the "is it here yet? is it happening? is it going to happen?" feeling just before Jesus' time.  We must be humble like children to enter into the Kingdom of God.