Double standards

I've written this as my son, Kent, tells the story, in his own words:

I came home really mad. Somebody had ripped off my navyblue down vest from my gym locker while I had been having a wrestling team picture taken. The coach said, "Tough luck." He didn't think I would ever see it again. How could I pick out my vest from the dozens of guys wearing the same color?

When I steamed off to my mom, she told me to get over being angry, as I couldn't think straight until I did. She mentioned the lines from a hymn, "God could not make imperfect man/His model infinite,"Christian Science Hymnal, No. 52. and we talked about double standards. How could I expect the students at the high school to express the standards of God's perfect man—to think and act with truthfulness and integrity—if I didn't work at expressing Truth myself?

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