What Does the OA Ordeal Have to Do With Poverty?

What does the OA Ordeal teach? Different things to different people. A woman who had experienced poverty, in this country and other cultures, told me her understanding of the four tests of the OA Ordeal.

My daughter experienced her Order of the Arrow Ordeal about a year after mine. She asked me what the tests of the Ordeal were meant to teach. I explained that it gives us a personal experience in what it is like to be poor. To live as a homeless person. Without the comforts that we enjoy.

The beauty of the four tests of the Ordeal is that they reach different people in different ways. And teach different things. They supply meaning and resolution to your life objectives. The courage to explore your inner thoughts and beliefs.

None of which will occur under the new induction proposal.

Can a Lesson Plan for the OA Ordeal Include This? No!

I oppose any change to the OA Ordeal that would interfere with this woman’s fabulous interpretation of the experience.