16 Today

God's Boys will be good boys!

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
God's Boys will be good boys!


You are a good boy and I love you. Thank you for bringing us much love.

Galatians 6, in the family dynamic.

God's Boys will be good boys!

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!

God's Boys will be good boys!


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

God's Boys will be good boys!

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"

God's Boys will be good boys!

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.

God's Boys will be good boys!

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.