It is my humble opinion..

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That a great Pastor is like a conductor. Who directs the people of God to act in symphony to do the will of God, in beautiful concert with one another. He invites, as it were for them to play their family instrument for God's glory, in the world. He invites them in on cue and shuts them up, when they are playing out of turn. God has a beautiful symphony that He is playing with the instruments of His Church. Finding the will of God and doing it, is the key!

Who is Aiming you, my son?

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In Proverbs 5:21, it is clear that the ways that you go are pondered by the Lord. It is as though God is looking at men as His gun. Where are you aiming yourself? Are you aiming yourself to the good of the next generation? Are you aiming yourself for the development of love and honor? Then, you are His gun and He takes pleasure in your ways, cleans and sharpens you. But, if you lend yourself to the love of your own ways and not family and growth for the next generation, You may never know His hand upon you. That would be the worst judgement of all. Do you sit in the holster and wait for the direction of the Lord? Do you wait in the quiver of home and wait for the help of the Lord in your direction? Know His ways and sense His direction and help upon your life. It is direction to love and grow your family and live to His glory in the world. There is really nothing better than to know that about yourself. Am I God's gun?

Facebook Friends.

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I know that I am dating myself, by discussing Facebook with you. I make fun and act like I am computer illiterate. I am not illiterate on the Facebook. I am just very slow. I love the progress. I love that young people find it amusing and entertaining to keep tabs on hundreds of people and their doings daily. They communicate their heart and they read others' hearts. It is a very violating thing, to me, or seems so. The wise person studies how to answer. We must be aware of the importance of the heart communication and the accepting of people as friends and acquaintances. Just trying to pray for all of your facebook friends is a chore, all by itself. Each relationship is a stewardship from God and the most important of all stewardship. God says that you have a responsibility to the people that you know and accept into friendship. Are you minimizing the word friendship? Are you aware of the difference between an acquaintance and a friend? Are you able to maintain the discipline of communicating with this many people? It makes me very uncomfortable to be in acquaintance and accessibility to so very many. I know that this is progress and fully accepted by most people, but I encourage you to scrutinize the use of your time on these facilities and the engagement of your heart in real and imagined relationships. Is it searing our consciences not to be sensitive to the real needs of others? We know alot of people and do we really communicate with God.
Suggestion: monitor the time you spend on the Facebook. schedule your time and attention on this.

Driving Class! Drivers Ed?

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What are you driving at? Where are you driving to? These are not the questions yet. You are going to driving class. What kind of driver will you be?
"What, my son..."

Here we are in Sophomore Year.

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A "wise-moron" literally, what an accurate depiction of Sophomore year. I am not calling you a smart-alec, but whoever coined that phrase for the second year of study, was a student of the mind. Questions and answers for everything, it is as though the mind says, I want to study, but I don't want to learn. Knowing enough to make you smarter, but not enough to make you an expert. Help us Lord negotiate through the sophomoric in our thinking.

The fight scene!

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My choreographer put together a fight scene for a movie. He held the camera to take the pieces in slow motion and then piece them together to make a movie. I really like that, except when somebody gets hurt. Try setting the scene with claymations instead of using my children for robots, next time, maybe. I love it. I will add it to your blog as soon as you let me get my hands on it.

Sunday Sumfun!

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Yesterday, we talked about the armorbearer. We talked about learning to serve your father and be his armorbearer. I want you, son to carry and take the responsibility of serving your father for the glory of God. We have Sunday after Sunday where we share and grow. Follow father, my son and learn all that you can and do all you can to give to him, while you can.
Enjoy your fun.

16 Today

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Happy Birthday, my son!

Precious and helpful, Godly young man, I am grateful for the time to have gotten to know you. I am grateful for your contribution in our family. Thieves steal and beware of wolves, my boy. God will repay! I love you. Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.

Baby Enoch turns 16?

I know that you are not a baby. You are not a little guy, you are a young man. Thank you for correcting me about that. You are showing strength to guide your conscience in the Word and need little more than a word to direct you to duty. I am grateful for God's work in your life. I see your spiritual pursuits. I see your attempts to give yourself to the tasks that are looming in a large family. God give you grace to see that all of the difficulties are making you a stronger man. God give you grace to see that we love you, even when it is spread so thin, because of human feebleness. Blessed is the man who hates covetousness. Know that you will be blessed with more of God, the more that you shun the materialistic and greedy sentiments of our world. Don't be deceived...

Easter with Aunt Iva
first tastes of ice cream from Cold Stone

^^^The Rainy days walking in Charlotte, picking up Dad from work
Park Days
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You are a good boy and I love you. Thank you for bringing us much love.

Galatians 6, in the family dynamic.

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Are you stubborn? Is your brother stubborn? Are you so grown now that you can see and label your brother such? Is that what you are calling him? Is that what you want him to be?
We must be careful, who carry the love and respect of little people that we make a distinction between behavior and character traits. That stubbornness is something that we need to work on, my brother, you should say. He cried and cried. Enoch says that I am stubborn. I must be stubborn. Be careful, in your reproofs, my boy. The judgment of charity is a greater weapon than the judgment of revelation. Pray for your brother. Help your brother, but don't condescend to name calling. You hurt him very badly.

Algebra, to the beat now!

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I certainly hope that you know how to ask for help. We continually invited you to move your homeworking self to a quieter place. You entered the dance with us and scraped your elbow. You can't "do-si-do" from your seat. I know you finished the homework, but is it right?

Last week's courts were covered with pollen, This week: Polynoses

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Forehand grip...Backhand grip...Scratch your back and serve the ball.


Creating a real tennisplayer, out of a barbarian, is a chisel. I gulp and kick myself that I lost so much time, not chiseling out a tennis ettiquette gentleman. You look like a savage! I love you!
GET YOUR HAND OFF OF THE NET! CLOSE THE GATE! NO RUNNING ON THE OTHER PERSON'S COURT! SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG RACQUET!
My father would call you a little "trugledite" in fun, of course. I don't know what else to do, but keep barking out the orders and maybe, one day you will close the gate and stop acting like a hooligan!LOL.

To the "T"

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Thank you for visiting the tennis courts with me this morning, Son. I am grateful for the time that we were able to spend with eachother. Silence and enjoyment of the silence are our common quality. Few words and just glances at eachother and the surrounding world. There is something to be said for nonverbal communication. Anybody else would have been bored and had to fill up the car with sound waves and such. Not us! We are a comfortable couple with the silence of love from the mother to her son and opposites.
My dad was sometimes scared of my silence. He would propose that I was thinking mean and viscious thoughts. Nope, I just don't have anything to say. I know that that is the case with you and I. Nothing to say, but, I had a good time whomping you on the courts. I had a good time watching the big boy, who is taller than me growing into a young man of poise and distinguished.
Thanks again, loved one.

The Lord of the Dance.

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God dances over us. He showers us with the blessings of sun and rain, provision and good things. God loves so lavishly, that we hardly ever notice that He is loving us. God's dance is supremely choreographed and performed. Don't miss it for the care of your own needs. Caring for others, is in imitation of God.

Sometimes, you boys who have Daddies take them for granted.

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My father, even as an old man, would sigh with loss when he would see little boys with their fathers. That was his favorite thing, in the world to be able to be. He fought, himself and his passions and his disloyalties to make sure that he could be a husband and a father. A relationship that he felt was stolen from him as a child, made him passionate about its importance.
He made alot of mistakes and was far from the model of this role; but, he did point out the examples that made him drool for that relationship and nurture those relationships in his life.
He pointed out every wicked passion in us and others that would make it impossible to maintain relationships with that. "Snake in the grass" was the worst epithet for him to murmur at our behavior. He showed us, if you want to be a snake, I will show you how to be a snake. He used his negative examples of intense knowledge of the most debased human behavior, in terms of loyalties to show us an emotional 3D picture of what it means to be a snake. It hurt emotionally more than a spanking ever could. No one can say things that pigeonhole you as much as a father. He couldn't know that, because he never had one. The scriptures show us the power of a father. God says, even if a child or daughter makes a vow and her father disallows it, he has the ability to mark her course. That was in Numbers. I think that this is really the case. It is very hard to get away from the dillineation that our fathers make of us.
I think that the one thing missing in this generation, is men who will be brave enough to chart a course for their children, in terms of character and roles and life. "I want you to...be blessed and prosper". After that, I want you to do battle with the spiritual wickednesses in high places. The pen is mightier than the sword? The video?

A box of clothes and sneakers from your uncle.

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What an amazingly large and generous gift you received, from that uncle Matthew! Wow! You are blessed, my boy. You have uncles and people who love you on many different levels. God has lent us these varied loves in our lives. The feeling in your heart when someone has singled you out and thought to give to you, is priceless. It is parallel to salvation.
God has selected us out of the multitude and though everyone around us may be saved. Jesus' love is specific to me.
He thought of me, from the realms of glory, who has worlds at His command, who is concerned with the creation and the maintenance of the universe. He thought of me. His sacrifice was for me. His mercy daily is for me. His eternal life is for me. Others may come to Him, but my only concern is that His salvation is a box and treasure, just for me.
Thank God for His treasures of the loves of uncles and sisters and brothers and aunts and father and mother. But more, Thank God for the box of treasures in the mercies of Christ!

Like an orange to my hungry mouth!

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We were in the middle of a very important game that would be the difference between, playoffs or no. I had forgotten to take lunch again and never had any money. I couldn't faint that day. No way. I would play. Maybe Dad would bring a sandwich or something when he came to watch us. That was a hope. He didn't.
I remember the sight, as though from heaven. The athletic director was walking from the office with a huge plate of oranges. I would not die! I would not faint. I think I even may have won that match, just on the extra potassium, that day. It was the most refreshing thing that I can imagine. To be just that hungry and just that parched and the feeling of those oranges on my hungry mouth, was a delight that I will never forget.

Finals are over!

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So, the first semester of High School is over! Is it hooray? Are you happy that the first semester is behind you?
My first semester was somewhat a success. I learned to train my mind to think of more than one thing at a time. I felt that people were throwing balls at me for me to juggle. The subway and the problems on the subway were a hurdle. My color distracted me, in class. Why is my skin brown? It seemed to come to me and take my mind off my studies, like a demon. Why am I taking Latin? I don't understand a word she is saying. I studied vocabulary and studied my tenses and tried hard and I was always coming up with the wrong translation. How come the other girls don't have that problem, I wondered? The first January, we had Sports Night which was the one thing that brought relief and help in the midst of the toils and concerns of the studies. Freshman Candyland, we did. It was superb!
I hope that your memories are as lucid of your High school days.

The good of eating vegetables.

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Why should I eat my okra? Because it is good for you. I eat my okra. I eat my stringbeans, spinach. Perhaps there is a correlation between being a Daniel and eating vegetables? Maybe not, but eat them anyway. Look it up.

READ THE GOOD EARTH, BY PEARL S. BUCK

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Economic development is lined out and the relationship between Chinese checkers and the real working together of people for the good of the whole will help you to navigate the changes and the consistencies of the world that you are about to inherit.

Walk with God in 2010!

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When you were a baby, I used to sing this sweet song to you.

"Now walk with God,
And He will be your dearest friend.
Where'er you go,
In everything you do,
And may your life,
Reflect His light to everyone.
So, Walk with God and He will walk with you!"

Enoch, in the scriptures, walked with God and he was not for God took him. He walked so closely that God didn't allow him to see death.
Enoch walked with God at the testimony of Noah and Methuselah who taught Him about God. God is not far from us, when we seek Him. Walking with God in the new year is not going to mean perfection, but peace and growth. So many times we say, I didn't know that before. Learning something new from God everyday is what we are aiming for. So...walk with God, my son. He will walk with you.