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

Are there no more "Whats?" my son?

God's Boys will be good boys!
What, my son? What, son of my womb? What, son of my vows?
Fewer questions and more determinations. 20's are a season of, "I'm not going to do it that way." It looks like to me. How do you stay respectful to your parents when your mind is taking their deeds apart and weighing them as to their validity in your life, long-term. It is hard! I love you mom, but what you are saying is not valid to this point...Sometimes that is the case.
Sometimes mom is talking to her little fellow, on the knee and you are a man. Sometimes mom is just gabbing to her rambunctious jumping bean and you are a settled man. I didn't ask you that, mother? I know you didn't. Just humor my answering the questions that are unasked, son. It is a habit and I love you and sometimes it is just mother talk. Keep weighing our validity and make your determinations and become a better man for it.

Happy New Year!

t was just yesterday that we were embracing our little cherubs and rejoicing at the gift of life.




Proverbs 31 writer seems to remind us that we so often are answering the questions that they are asking that we don't tell them what they need to know. What? What? What else? You are always chatting about something that I want to hear about, because I love you and learning how you think. Now, when I am gone you will read and see how I think and what I think is important for you to know.
What else, my son?

Merry Christmas Eldest Son.

God's Boys will be good boys!

The Joy of the Lord, {thoughts from "Inside Out"}

God's Boys will be good boys!

I never would've watched the movie, for the girl's talking about how sad it made them. It didn't make me sad. I know we went through bad stuff with moving and whatnot. That is the reality of our situation. That movie looked like a movie about children and adult's growing up and finding the "Joy of Living!"amidst the situations of life. There were so many truths in the midst of that good family friendly movie. I loved it.

Some loves and friends and memories are living long in the long-term and all memories have mixed emotions the further you get away from them. Maturity to adulthood has collapses of real and happy memories for new ones of every hue. It is scary when the old good memories start fading and the old bad memories fade also. It is maturity that carries us over the line.

The most important lesson that I got from that movie, is to make sure the "Joy of the Lord" is a very strong factor in your child rearing. Put that as a priority and it will strengthen the personality and emotions of your young people. Collapses will happen to everyone, but God has undergird the soul with His strength when He is prioritized. Try to remember that!

Thank you Enoch for all you do!---Still, I love ya, love ya, Honey!

God's Boys will be good boys!

You are a calming influence in our family, most times. You are the one who shakes us out of our "fatal ease", to contemplate the eternal value of what we do and say. You are the very observant and very circumspect person, who throws his actions through the sieve of biblical authority, before acting, most times. I am grateful for your kindness in our family. I am grateful for your sympathy for the downtrodden and for your shaking the apathetic into action. I am intensely watching and learning to follow your example in my life.

I pray that God would give you long perseverance in your spheres of usefulness, that your guidance would carry us to also learn to be considerate of the other people in the house and not just ourselves. Thank God for you. Love and smoochiepoos, Mommy.