Boy, This world is not your home and "This Ain't Your Crown!"

God's Boys will be good boys! When joy comes into your life, {and I do hope many joys come}you must remember this: This ain't yo crown! I love you and I would have you look deeply into the joys of life and see the hand of God, lending them to you. It is the hand of God that prospers your way. It is the blessing of the Lord that makes one rich and He adds no sorrow with it.

You are blessed with a good and god-fearing disposition and this is a trust from God. Spend yourself and your mind and your endeavors with prudence, knowing that there is a beginning and an end to them all. Each gift that you have is spent wisely or foolishly. I pray for the preservation of your heart and mind. I pray for the engagement of your faculties in that which will build a better future for us all. Lay the hammer to the anvil of swords to plowshears and see what God can do with that kind of engagement. He alone knows how the world will be bettered with right perspectives attempting to live out faith.

Praise God with as much as you have and see if He doesn't inhabit your life. He will!

Graduation Day

God's Boys will be good boys!

God's blessings on your efforts, my good man!

You have just a few days until your associates degree is completed and you are counting down.  I am grateful for your example of perseverance and wisdom in pursuing your degree.  You are truly a gentleman and a scholar.  I am celebrating you, this mothers day.  I love you.

Getting ready for Graduation!

God's Boys will be good boys! What a good man you were to complete your coursework and not incur any debt for yourself! I am proud of your accomplishments and in awe of your austerity.

It is wonderful to hear you speak from your new educated self and watch you grow in gifts and graces. I am grateful that I have been blessed to see you grow. Love, Mom

I Really like the way that you show yourself in transparency to your family.

God's Boys will be good boys!


I looked up at a star that was far, far away and I realized that there were so many people in my life that loved me enough to be transparent in front of me.  I loved that.
   I was thinking about my Grandma Monica, as I often do.   I saw that I can see her personality clearly and I don't need a book about her to have loved her, like I do.
   I was thinking about each of my children and how I want them to love me, at least as much as I loved her.  It takes courage to place your heart in front of people and show them the real you.  I often squint in pain, knowing that your transparency is going to be attacked in the public forum of our family dynamic.  But, you still do it and you take the blows, with great adeptness.  You know the blows will come and you still keep yourself transparent.
   I hope you stay that way.  I love you!

Did my father's extreme tactics of teaching benefit me? Can you hit a quarter with your serve?

God's Boys will be good boys!

Safe Harbor!

Is There Freedom to Conquer the Questions in your home? In your heart

How many backhand crosscourt drills is enough to win?

How much grits is enough for your family?

Hypothesis?

Daniel was gifted and needed the challenge of a godless education to sharpen his mind and spirit. I believe his continual prayers were to rightly dissect the godless education and find the real truth of God inside it. I believe God did that for him. But, I also believe that our prayers should be the opposite; Where are my prejudices keeping me from seeing the real truth of God?

My ideal educational objective would be half physical and half mental. I would leave the spiritual training for the church people. All of the school time would be sports training and mental acumen. Computers would be banned, except to build one or another.

Science concentrations would include dissecting animals from 6th grade. The choices of specialization would be the child’s after Middle School of Math or Science Majors---Both are essential and would be included in each, but they must have a sense that they have chosen the path that they are taking. Mastery Learning would be the top rung and each level would be aggressively encouraged to take the most challenging that they could.

What makes us want a Wimbledon trophy? The pomp, the encouragement, the Queen’s attendance? We must incorporate encouragements to scholasticism. Psychologists and Nurses should be onhand to diagnose family difficulties which impede the process. Special care and special attention should be given to family problems which cause learning difficulties. This is where Sunday School and Christian lessons of loving one-another would become remedial. We must direct our young people to see the humanity of their living situation and seek to grow from their trials.

It is clear that Nebuchadnezzar had very violent tendencies that encouraged his court to excel and to challenge themselves to higher and higher levels. I believe that Daniel prayed daily for grace to see the purposes of God, in his sufferings and labors. Nebuchadnezzar was drawing every culture and religion to answer to him. He had challenge games for them that could result in their death. This is extreme and his labors brought the greatest learning environment that we see in Scripture. Daniel needed grace and strength to see God as above this challenge. Is earthly knowledge something to aspire to under God? Daniel was victorious in his efforts through prayer and diligence. We must see God as both expecting great effort and sympathetic to our weaknesses. God grant us grace to see this, when we have lesser men than Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar to show us the dichotomy.

You and your Ethan brother cared very much for me, last night.

God's Boys will be good boys!

Thank you for the dear care. Thank you for asking if I needed care. Thank you for bringing dinner up and for the tylenol, which helped me to sleep, so that I could get better quickly from this painful germ.

I think I am better. My throat still hurts, but no more body aches. Love you boys! Mommy