The Howling of Darkness

I like to keep an eye out for little Jesus-es and found such a person in Erin Gruwell, the teacher depicted in the movie, Freedom Writers. Like Jesus, she cared for the individual and in the process, found herself in the cross hairs of an entrenched institution. Her unconventional care for her students inadvertently exposed the public school system for what it had become - a self-serving institution.

Light often does that. She had no bone to pick with the public school system. She was just caring desperately about her kids and just doing excellently. But as a result of her care and her excellence, those defending the "system" descended on her with a fury - mediocrity and inferiority (darkness) stung by the exposure of her excellence (light).

Sometimes, if you want to find true light, listen for the howling of darkness.