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.

As We "refrain from Embracing"...and other thoughts on growing up "Walker"

God's Boys will be good boys!

To Everything there is a season...

The time to every purpose of this time is the time to refrain from embracing.

I believe that, if there is one thing that marks my remembrance of my Enoch and the comfort that he is, it is embracing. We held onto one another as though there were not going to be a time to refrain from embracing. "Love ya, Love ya honey"? What a dear boy you have been to know that your mother was in constant grief and so often allay her fears. When you fell, or tried something new, you would say, I am alright mother. You knew that it would hurt me more than you for you to be hurt and so you comforted me, almost before you could walk. I am right here mother, when I would call out, as though the unthinkable has happened. You knew that my mind always went to the worst fear.

This morning, no kiss and no hug, your manly self came in and got ready for your morning drive and I had to wait. I had so many warnings and corrections to say, but I held my tongue. He is grown now. Let the morning happen for him. Let him ask for your opinion, was the message to my soul. I just prayed and brewed in my spirit the longings for you to grow in grace and knowledge and ability. I would never have time to tell you all. I just try to enjoy this season of

"refraining from embracing".

What, my son. And What son of my vows, and what son of my womb?

God's Boys will be good boys! Skin is usually easily healed with a kiss and a bandaid and a little time. Sometimes sutures are needed, but hearts are often a lifetime in healing. You may break a bone here and there. But deal carefully with your heart and the hearts of others. People love you and want to follow you. Be careful with this new friending process. Hearts are delicate, handle with prayer.

This is a good resource for little children. Do you remember this?

God's Boys will be good boys!

Last Wednesday was a great time hearing from the man of God, my son.

God's Boys will be good boys!

MY son Enoch was asked to speak at the youth service at Central. I was so pleased and wanted so much to be there, but I wasn't sure if my presence would detract from the Word.

God made a way for me to be there and I sat in the corner and received the Word, as though it was anyone else. God is not stuck and needy, He is no respecter of persons and that means that He can use the young as well as the old. He can use the very bold and confident and He can use the very humble and quiet person. I believe that. I received much from that Word, I am trying to put into practice the mortification of my sins, when I am aware of them. I am desirous to know more of God in the putting away of my sins on a regular basis. I am grateful that God used my son in our church to speak of the beauty of knowing that God can assist us to get closer to Him, everyday.

May God bless your ministry and your Christian walk, in Jesus' Name, Amen.