Right Or Fast?

I was thinking about my little girl, when she was a little girl, She is a mother of a collage Junior now. Her class was taking a timed math test, which meant she must answer each problem correctly in so many minutes. I believe she was in the third grade at that time. When the kids finished the test, they could go outdoors and play.The children had all finished their test and were happily playing, all, except my little girl. She was still working diligently on the problems. Finally, the teacher went over to her desk and said, “Didn’t you know that this was going to be a timed test?” My girl answered her, “Would you rather have it RIGHT or FAST”? The teacher told me about it later, saying, “I really didn’t know what to say”.

That popped into my head when I heard President Biden say he ordered enough of the vaccines to be ready so that every American who wants to be vaccinated, will be vaccinated in June. That sounded like something that will be hard for all the scientists, etc. to accomplish. It seems RIGHT, not FAST should be asked, doesn’t it?

I was teaching Old Testament in the Bible some years ago to a group of teenagers.I asked them to explain the chapter we had just read. They couldn’t. I was pretty sure they couldn’t because their eyes had just skimmed the chapter. I said, “Read it again, this time slowly and thoughtfully.” They did. And they had all kinds of thoughts about the chapter. They practiced RIGHT instead of FAST.

Probably we should all keep that RIGHT or LEFT thought in our brains. I know I often rush through things that would be better off RIGHT.