Please, Please, Don't eat the...daisies?

Please don't drink the carpet cleaner. Tom and Huck are at it again. I bet you can't, I bet I can. One sprayed it on his feet and the other in the mouth. Lord, help me to beware of my boys in this most dangerous season in their lives. Boys will be boys and boys need their guardian angels far more at this age, than any other time. All eyes on deck!

To Heaven, with us(please)

From children’s earliest days, they should be taught about the seams that bind our culture together. We pray, "on earth as it is in heaven". We should point out what are, as in heaven and what are not.
We concentrate on some of the more gross aspects of our sinfulness and neglect some of the sublime areas, like insurance. We should have courses in family management and it should not be assumed that it would be passed down or taken advantage of people from one system to another.
a suggestion-Perhaps an entrepreneurial class or seminar day where the children play monopoly and incorporate some of the internet expressions of entrepreneurialship. We must win our children to the importance of prevention of huge economic depression as we have seen when new technology or economic bases grow out of control and the system of checks and balances is unable to grow fast enough to incorporate the new growth. Entire systems go outdated and we cannot sustain the collapse as with slavery and cotton and industrial revolution and now the tech wreck.
We have to build into the system the multidimensional speed bump preventions that will help us to stem the tides and build in protections for the older generations to be provided for without Social Security.
Social Security was set in place in a day where the majority of the families had single incomes and were reproducing themselves in greater numbers than today.

It is the boll weevil to the cotton crop of the Social Security, we already know. Our economy cannot sustain, if the entire next generation opts out of the capitalistic endeavor, because we have done nothing to win them on board. Years ago, it was enough that prejudice and ethnic pride kept an us and them status between people groups, keeping the chain rolling. We have lost that, glad to say. But that means we have also lost a great motivator for the younger generation to stay on board. If we are not better people than anybody else, why should we try to buy into a system of unity with one another?


On earth as it is in heaven. It is not good to keep poor people ignorant of the gospel, until they are rich enough to afford it. It is not good to say, if they are too holy, they won’t care about earthly things much. This would be a pagan mentality. Not rich enough to be honest yet, the poor? This is not a good or upbuilding system and every system that has been built on it, has collapsed, as ours would.
Our pillars are built on a growing consciousness that God created us and sustains us and the triune system of checks and balances is in the similitude of our great God. If we neglect the salvation of the system that is made in His image we are tempting the tasting of the graciousness of the Lord and going back on it. It is dangerous to be blessed with as much light as we have been as a nation and as a world and to use it for anything other than to glorify God with it. We already are alive to His image, in the things and patterns of state around us and still we are refusing to “wash the dishes” clean up the messes. The things that our parents couldn’t see of the impropriety, we are responsible to cover and clear. Under Moab and the washpot of the Lord, is the blessing of grace in Jesus.
The curse of Ham, would be to make fun of the mistakes of our parents. Signing out of the commitment to the system that has made the systems what it is.
We must repent. We must start at home and look closely at the things that bind our system in unity. How sweet it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Where our unity is built on pride, it is repugnant to God. Ie, James Brownism “I’m Black and I’m Proud and I’m sayin’ it loud”. (This is my personal pride tendency...)

Where our unity is built on the similitude of God, it is winsome to God. Ie. Evangelical obedience to the commandments of God or hymnsinging or the triune political process, or the praise and worship of God in a humble obedience to Him.
Blessed be the tie that binds…
If it is not in Christian love, God has intention of having it eaten as with worms, because,”Herod did not give the glory to God”. If the world can see us and glorify the God who made us, if we don't give the glory to God, we are far worse than Herod and that would mean that we are subject to the same judgement as Herod. Help us, O Lord.

When being a ball person, on the court,

there is a certain way that you have to be taught to bounce the ball to the Pro. It would be very "pickyune", if it were not that a wrong toss to a Professional or a Celebrity on the court could cause an unnecessary distraction of the match. So you spend time bouncing the ball, half way between yourself and the other person so that you can do your job properly.
It takes some little skill not to call attention to yourself in the bouncing to the ball. That is a service that a young person is called to do that lends some distinguishedness to the game, because people are not laughing at the silly way the ball people are acting on the court. The privilege of being that close to the professionals and the celebrities demands a certain decorum. I am very grateful for Mr. Rooney allowing us the opportunity to participate in these events. To add color to the courts, so to speak. God reminds me how low He condescends to bounce my younguns out and into my playing field now and again. This time the eldest bounced out to Iowa and is bouncing home again and God has her causes and delights in His hands. I am truly grateful. He doesn't have to be so gracious to me to have His hands on their every move, but He acts the humble part, as though I am the pro. Here is your precious ball back, Mommy. He is mighty and powerful, but concerns Himself with these low matters. Amazing Love!

I can hit a quarter with a ball, but

Children never go where you aim them, it seems. :) What is that about? Forehand, backhand, serve, or volley, my aim is very close to the target, but not with my children. They have a mind and a direction all their own. God says, as arrows, in the hand of a mighty man. I have been putting them in the bow and aiming and pulling and boing. Here and there and every other place than where I have aimed them. They have their own directional signals, it seems. Like the geese that I saw in formation, they are more about following what I do than going where I am aiming. God give me grace to see that my tossing and my hitting or missing are just shadows of what God is doing to make them who He wants them to be.
He is the PRO. He is the service ace. He is using my children as balls in His arsenal to whip the mighty powers of darkness and create a Glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, (mixing metaphors).
This is a thinking game and there is a part that He has for us to play in rearing them to be the right person for the job in the outcome. God give us grace to rear them.

If you keep tossing and don't hit the ball... (I too, am a woman under authority)

you are not a tennis player. One is in Iowa. I don't know if I hit her there or not. Having aim and having ability is nothing if you don't hit the ball. Hitting the ball is engaging them in the issues that are directive. Putting or placing the pressure of parenthood upon their abilities. ie. "I expect you to do better this year." Making suggestions for their lives and helping them to do, what is in their best interest for their own ambitions. This is the positive pressure. You can be a goad (hopefully, in a positive sense): someone who they have to answer to, to represent what their conscience should be doing. They look at you like the ball, I don't want to be served into the court and called into play, sometimes. Still, if you are a tennis player and if you are a parent you will apply the pressure of your racquet on the impotence of the ball and it goes where you want it to go or somewhere. This is minus any spirit, holy or otherwise, it will go. How much more when we are praying to a great and mighty God and they who have spirits and souls that are submissive to us as parents? God will work His will and do His thing in the lives of these children. He takes pleasure in confounding the mighty and the thoughtful and that means you hit them this way and He aces it in your court. You lose and they win. But God wins!
(I can put the ball where I want it. Only speak the word, I pray and my family may be healed.)

Must's for the development of my boys, girls and women!

Yesterday we got to watch 2 super movies from the old days. Captain Courageous, 1937. and Tom Brown's School Days. I can't tell you how they have affected my conscience. I want my children, boys and girl and women to watch these movies and learn integrity.

The toss, again...

If I could do it all over again, part of my toss with my children would include far more memory games and play. I would play memory with them. I would do what I could to stimulate every memory follicle in those little brains of theirs. Scripture memory is good for the soul, but all kinds of use of memory is necessary. Email addresses, phone numbers, states, times tables, visually and verbally and any other way that it could be used and utilized.
I see now that as mothers we are building impulses toward good or toward evil. Impulses like the ones that I have when somebody tosses a ball up in the sky. My shoulder automatically triggers. I want to hit that ball. Impulses like when a ball is hit as a dropshot, just a little to close to the service line. I am drooling to run up there and put that ball away. I am building those kinds of impulses in my children. Crosscourt, I said, don't go down the line, go cross court. We are building a language with our children that God will take to the next level. Children of the mother, know that mom will not go for that. My memory and my reflexes were built and added upon for a higher purpose. That is learning enablement and that is the advancement of our culture.

The woman who teaches her son in Proverbs 31

says very little about whether or not you get along with her. As a woman, I feel a more than a little taken aback by that passage. It is so perfectionistic. It is about the reality that a man is comforted by the fact that his wife can take care of everything. The more skills that you have under your belt is the more that you will get along. Conflicts come, when there is something that should have been done that was left undone. A gracious husband can overlook a fault or two, but even the most gracious man needs the help that God has made you to be.
A right and good schedule and things being done and completed on time does much to abate most conflicts. You will have conflicts about the how to's and you will submit yourself to the way that his culture has reared him. But if it gets done and completed, most men will have nothing to say about it. Be an effective and accomplishing woman!

Her hands hold the distaff...

She is busy in the processes that are hers to concern herself with. Perhaps, now my child is attempting to build a house and learning and growing skills that will, one day make her a great carpenter and house builder. That is not masculine. Learning to do these things and watching the skills of others will grow her into a woman of usefulness and beauty. Halleluia, that as you grow in grace and beauty you are also growing in skill and sympathy to other's needs. You who have been homeless, at another time and had to have someone be sympathetic to you, now is showing sympathy to someone else's needs. That is how it should be. Only those who can see and sympathize with those who are in true need are being like God. He had love for us, when we were without strength. Christ died for me!

Learning to be comfortable to decorate or be the decorative part of the world.

In creation, The very last encouragement to Adam, as per the Bible narrative was the woman. Hey Man, this is a "looker". God had no problem rewarding Adam with something beautiful to make his days worthwhile. Be comfortable to beautify the world that God has put you in. Be comfortable to decorate yourself and have a sweet spirit. Don't let the deviancy of the wicked world make you cringe at being attractive.
It is true that sin has made the beauty of the attraction sometimes turn into something wicked. But, you can recoup and recreate the beauty of love that is intentional to one another. Do what you can to be the object of your own mans visual attraction? He should know that you do this for him. You are not a magazine for everybody. His alone. There will be seasons when you are changed into a monster and he will have to think back to your beauty of years. Many children later and many years of pulling on the skin can change you. Still in the eyes you can see what you are to one another in the heart. No one can steal that.
Don't let your sisterns be dispersed abroad. Don't let your story be given to everybody. Commit to doing all that you can to maintain the gift of marital love that is yours as a gift from God. The dividend is an aging time of comfort and care of one another. Someone whose body you are caring for and who cares for you. The body will start to decay and then, whose will you be? This belongs to me. I loved a young strong man and I love this elderly gentleman that he has become. The parts that are still as they were and the parts that are dwindling in sight and hearing etc. Love is seeing eachother as your own. I love what you have become. And I still can see you becoming, even down to old age.