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2009-04-27
By: Barry Moore
Tour de Life
About every three months a group of Transition Students go on a tour of selected locations within the St. George area that are associated with key events from out of their personal lives-past, present, and future. We begin the Tour where you might expect-at a Pediatric Unit in a nearby hospital. While there, the students are reminded, among other things, that notwithstanding their new growth, they are still very much in their infancy, scarcely beginning
to recover from the issues that brought them to RRCS, and as dependent upon a treatment plan for survival as a 24 week old premie is dependent upon a life support system for their's.
Next stop is pre/historic St. George, Utah. Within its city limits lies a fascinating range of objects (& lessons). A couple of them suit our Trans purposes nicely. For instance, by contrasting neighboring dinosaur tracks with pioneer sites, the students are able to contemplate the kind of legacy they want to leave their loved ones: fossilized old ways, or groundbreaking new ones. Clearly the challenge, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve," is as relevant today as it was anciently when Joshua first uttered those inspired words.
Then, to dramatize what can happen if the student is unwilling to leave his/her old ways alone, the Tour goes to Purgatory Correctional Facility, where the students meet with inmates who tell their stories, and who plead with them to choose the right. "You don't want to come here," they hear them say with emotion. "You don't want to come here!"
Following our virtual tour of Purgatory prison, we visit a funeral home with caskets and urns on display, visually reinforcing a message they've already heard read to them from a book entitled, Return from Tomorrow, and that is, "death can come at any age." Following this part of the Tour, it's not uncommon to hear students talk about their Higher Power in ways they didn't talk about it before. A few of them even go a step further by identifying their Higher Power by name and by what has been written about him, and are now daily seeking his help in prayer. It's because of observations like that, that we continue to say with humility, "miracles never cease!"
The final stop on the Tour isn't a cemetery as you might expect-although we do try to get to one-but rather we go to a certain web site on the computer where a student can begin to "track down" his/her ancestors ... and then learn how that connection is far from dead.
There you have it. Or at least that facet of the "Trans" experience. As with life, there's a lot more to our program than that. We invite you to learn about "the rest of the story" the next time you're here.
Barry Moore
Transition Program Director
By: Barry Moore
Tour de Life
About every three months a group of Transition Students go on a tour of selected locations within the St. George area that are associated with key events from out of their personal lives-past, present, and future. We begin the Tour where you might expect-at a Pediatric Unit in a nearby hospital. While there, the students are reminded, among other things, that notwithstanding their new growth, they are still very much in their infancy, scarcely beginning
to recover from the issues that brought them to RRCS, and as dependent upon a treatment plan for survival as a 24 week old premie is dependent upon a life support system for their's.
Next stop is pre/historic St. George, Utah. Within its city limits lies a fascinating range of objects (& lessons). A couple of them suit our Trans purposes nicely. For instance, by contrasting neighboring dinosaur tracks with pioneer sites, the students are able to contemplate the kind of legacy they want to leave their loved ones: fossilized old ways, or groundbreaking new ones. Clearly the challenge, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve," is as relevant today as it was anciently when Joshua first uttered those inspired words.
Then, to dramatize what can happen if the student is unwilling to leave his/her old ways alone, the Tour goes to Purgatory Correctional Facility, where the students meet with inmates who tell their stories, and who plead with them to choose the right. "You don't want to come here," they hear them say with emotion. "You don't want to come here!"
Following our virtual tour of Purgatory prison, we visit a funeral home with caskets and urns on display, visually reinforcing a message they've already heard read to them from a book entitled, Return from Tomorrow, and that is, "death can come at any age." Following this part of the Tour, it's not uncommon to hear students talk about their Higher Power in ways they didn't talk about it before. A few of them even go a step further by identifying their Higher Power by name and by what has been written about him, and are now daily seeking his help in prayer. It's because of observations like that, that we continue to say with humility, "miracles never cease!"
The final stop on the Tour isn't a cemetery as you might expect-although we do try to get to one-but rather we go to a certain web site on the computer where a student can begin to "track down" his/her ancestors ... and then learn how that connection is far from dead.
There you have it. Or at least that facet of the "Trans" experience. As with life, there's a lot more to our program than that. We invite you to learn about "the rest of the story" the next time you're here.
Barry Moore
Transition Program Director
