On a Scale of 1-10 where 10 is the best.

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He says it was a 9. We will see if pride is detected or if his perception of his presentation was accurate. Is pride the folly of the teen years, it is good to perceive within yourself, if your perceptions of yourself are to the right or to the left of reality. It will guage your way through life. When we calculate the zero for not putting in the previous project in on time a 9 is what you need to stay right in the middle of the road.
We both know that we don't want too much attention for being too smart. So you missed yesterday's opportunity and will ace today's. That is not wise, but it is the habit. Try getting 80's all of the time and finishing every project, instead of sprinting hard because you didn't finish the last time. Let's see if there will be more peace in heart and mind and the house then.

Thrilled to work on a goal!

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Getting closer to the straight A's. I am glad to see the improvement, my boy. We are laboring and studying more than ever. Keep up the good work!

What is midnight?

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Midnight is full launch, my boy. You are not there yet, but soon. The day will come when you have full responsibility over your own conscience. The day when mom and dad won't see and won't know what you are doing. Teach us, we pray to the Lord, to number our days. But then, we grow up and we don't have mom and dad and the other preservatives in our lives.
Is the something lurking going to attack you and take you into the grasp of the hounds of Hell? That is the question that Professor Jackson places before us in the Thriller. Will you face them clothed in the righteousness of another, or will you try to face them in your own strength? Read, as it were, the esteemed professors dissertation on accountability. We dance to the beat and have no sense that we are embibing the dissertation. Some evil and some to good use. This one, is fraught with wisdom and guidance about our considerations in the time of trouble and temptation. There is a real devil and much of the temptation comes from within our own hearts. He has no solution dilineated, but the problem has been mapped out exquisitely.
God gives us many days of accountability, on earth to prepare us for That Day.
You and I are no match for the hounds of Hell. Ask yourself? Am I any match for this? No. Seek the Lord.

Thrilled to have the freedom to pursue happiness!

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We live in a free country! Life, liberty and the pursuit...of...happiness? Is that still a part of the country that we have inherited. We are very blessed to be endowed by our creator with this as an inalienable right...
I saw a very little baby this morning, sitting in front of me at church. Not an unusual sight and you know how much I like babies. This baby was not swaddled and so she was reaching out looking for the limits of the area around her. Not an unusual activity for a newborn. Fast asleep, her little arms reached as far as they could, searching for the pouch that had been her home for the prior months while she was inside her mommy. The walls were not there. She grinned in her sleep and reached out again. No walls were there between she and her daddy. Further and further she reached until she woke herself up reaching and when she opened her eyes there was daddy. No walls between them anymore and they were lovingly gazing into eachother's eyes, like they couldn't have done just a few weeks before.
I said to myself, that is the pursuit of happiness. Reaching and reaching for the walls which were around you yesterday and being born out of limitations into the liberty of seeing our Heavenly Father's loving gaze and thoughtful provisions for us, even in the storms and even in our sleep.

I want to be born into the liberty in Christ everyday, to pursue the, all things richly to enjoy, that God has given.

Saved, as brands from the burning.

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When we get a sizeable burn, like yours, this morning, it reminds me that, by grace we have been saved through faith. It is a gift from God, not of works. The devil attempts to grab us through our minds and our eyes and burns our consciences with sights and sounds that threaten to sear us, through our consciences. We must resist him and we must take these lessons of serious burns to know that God is greater and can cleanse us from the most serious blot on our souls. We must resist the devil and cling to Christ in all of His power to save us from the flames and the torment of Hell. It is truly of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
I said that over your cradle everyday to myself to remember that life and death are in the control of the Lord in heaven. I couldn't sleep, afraid that the angel of death would come to carry my second son with him as he had my first. My only comfort was that verse. I deserve far worse, because of my sins, but God is rich in mercy and has not yet consumed me, in my grief, though often I feel at the precipice.
Don't let the arm of your soul spend too much time near the heat of the wrong things on the internet, soul burns are far worse than skin burns.

I was so surprised that you...

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took it upon yourself to entertain us with a puppet show in the backseat of the car when we were on the way to church. I looked at the camera and saw this surprising video of the adventures that happen when your father and I are conversing in the front of the car. You are the tallest person, almost in the family and I was admiring how you humble yourself daily to take the rear seat to the ladies, without a word of complaint about it. And to add to that that you entertain them in the rear seat with your stories as well is...THRILLING, at least to me. I am your mother, though. I know very little that will grow the virtues of godliness better than a large crop of siblings toting around with you wherever you are.

Those boys are at your beck and call and I hope that you will remember that they are listening, when you are out and about.

Sometimes I take a music fast!

A City set upon a hill cannot be hidden?


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I would hope that you would also consider the season and take music fasts, son. Or fasts of some thing that is too familiar and at risk of having the dominance of your life. Not in a way that takes you into captivity, by its removal, or makes you proud. That would defeat the purpose. The scriptures say, don't walk around trying to look like you are fasting. Don't put others in captivity by creating a fast for just any little thing. But, be blessed in the season when you draw near to God in one or more area of life, know that He will draw near to you!