Is your simplicity baited or abated?

Baited, used, manipulated, taken advantage of, is what people do to the simple minded. Those who, by their ignorance cannot take stock of the wisdom available from God, in the world around us. Let us study to answer and study to behave and decide with prudence. The advantage takers may get away with their guise for a short time and eternally suffer, as Christ says it is better that a millstone be hung around their necks and they be cast into the sea. Christ cares for His simple ones, but He warns us to be wise as serpents. Be wise, dear children. Don't allow the pride of life cause you to align yourself with those who mean you no good purpose in your souls. Defend your souls by worshipping God with your mind. God is good! God is alive and God is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Touch not, they say, taste not, they implore. If Christ has set you free, be free to love Christ and one another with truth and abandon. He is holy and undefiled and gives us all things richly to enjoy.
Enjoy Christ and one another's family love.
Have your simplicity abated.

There were Shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night.

Faithful to the task, God was faithful to announce to them, first. Who is on earth? The only Peace that there is on earth is in Christ. He was here and the angels were rejoicing. Peace is on earth, they kept saying. How come, only the shepherds could hear them shouting? Peace is on earth! Jesus is born. God is walking on the earth in human flesh. The angels carried their exaltation from heaven where it dwells in God's presence to the earth where He was. Alot of people missed it. Not the shepherds on watch that night. They heard the joyful sound and got to be among the first to worship Him. Halleluia!

The silence of the day before Christmas Eve.

hand cookies left out for "Santa"

Hark, How the Bells,

Sweet silver bells, all seem to say, throw cares away? Christmas is a time for shaking off the sloth and guilty fears of yesterday's sins. Christ has come in the flesh to seek and to save that which was lost.
Too often, in this season do I get caught up in the entanglement of covetousness. I get caught up in where I am not and what I haven't gotten yet. Christ's birth reminds me to shake those earthly thoughts off of myself. Get into the scripture's version of the Christmas story and receive the Gold and Frankenscence and Myrrh that God has travelled from beyond our sins to deposit into us, His redeemed people. We would have alot of stuff, but no access to God through Christ, had the first Christmas not happened. God had a plan for our redemption. Beyond our wildest dreams that God would travel from the throne of Glory to grant us the gift of communion with Himself. Do throw cares away! Your sins which are many have been sent to the deepest farthest part away from God, when repented of. Glory to God in the Highest should be our song this season, it belongs to us. The angels only know a part of the story to have sung that song. We who are already redeemed should be singing to His glory!

Now Thank We all our God!

She makes strong her arms.

Delightful music is the fruit of much learning and much practice. Learning a new skill can be tedious and wearisome sometimes but we are delighted by the results.
It was a joy to see my daughter playing in recital with the likes of the 7th and 8th grade band.
Tune our hearts, we pray in song, to sing Thy praise.
Tuning our hearts takes practice in prayer and in usefulness. The use of whatever instruments are in our hands to glorify God is worth the effort.
Thank you for sharing your talent with us Evelyn.

The Scriptures also say that

God Clothes Himself With Light, as with a garment and also with strength. When we are putting on the clothes for the day. Let us remember that God puts on coverings on our behalf also. No man can see God in all His glory and live. So He gives us just as much of Himself as we will allow and our flesh can fathom. He is so gracious that way. We too must curtail our relationships to those with whom we have more and less acquaintanceships appropriately.
Clothing is a type of protection against those who would use the knowledge of ourselves against us. Guard your hearts and guard your steps guard your life.

Listen to the Lord, children.

God has wisdom in his word. Please, listen to the wisdom that God has and not to your own understanding. That is my best birthday present.
"My heart will rejoice, when your mouth speaks good things."

Putting on the Whole Armor of God?

We have defenses now, in Christ to adorn our souls and to protect our hearts and minds. A greater goal, than putting on strength in Proverbs 31 which we are dealing with is putting on the whole armor of God. Why? "So that we can defend ourselves against the evil one." So that we can stay in communion with God through life and "love life? and see good days?"

I met a precious sister in Christ, whose clear ministry it was, to build up the believers in their helmet of salvation and shield of faith. Everything that she said was placing another layer of protective coating on my shield. Many times, we forget to put on our shield, or our shields are flimsy, every fiery dart of the enemy of our souls penetrates through. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. When we put on our whole armor, let us strengthen that armor in daily communion with God and His word.
Proverbs 31 is what King Lemuels' mother taught him about women and life. A life without the grace of God as the heart of your home, would truly be a difficult one. Learn the lessons of discernment now and God will bless and choose with you.

She puts on Strength as an undergarment.

Are you strong on your "inards"? Unfortunately, too often we are weak when we should be assuming strength. Did you put on your strength today? I don't like to put on strength.

She is Proactive in service to her family.

She is, not just commanded and responsive in relating to her husband, she is also considerate in thought and actions. She uses the means at her disposal for the good of the whole family and not just for the accumulation of stuff. Stuff is very good if it serves the purpose.
I love the fact that when she thinks about instructing her son on what type of woman would fit; she doesn't take out a tape measure and give him the physical proportions.
There will be time enough for that. And I like to think that she pounded this in far before the eyeballs were in gear for those things, or there would have been nothing to say.

"When I don't think, I do what my momma did."

She considers...
I walk past that candy machine every day and by impulse put my quarters and dollars into my impulse spending which become impulse calories on my body. Impulse spending is a mess and we must pray and watch and watch and pray. We have very little and trying to be faithful with very little takes thought and consideration. Christmas time is when we love one another with our thoughts and precious gifts. Last year we had the best time working together to make a ferris wheel out of the Kennex and it wasn't about what we had, but about who we were with. I love you children.
Follow the wisdom of Proverbs 31 and consider a field.

Back to Proverbs 31--

Aren't we glad that shopping is included as a virtue in the next verse- She shops?-- She considers, which is shopping. She doesn't consider consumer items, in this verse, awwww, She considers another profitable industrious purchase which will, ultimately bring more into the household. What a woman! Let us remember in our holiday dreaming and scheming that we have an end in view of the maintainance of the household and that will truly temper the spending which goes on.
I met a truly industrious woman whose husband had given her a precious new sewing machine and she said to me. "I want to make a special blanket and sell blankets so that I can bring in the money which he spent for the machine." Her sentiments hit me deeply when I was covetting such a beautiful machine. I thought, could you say that, No I just want to play with it. Do good and speak well and don't consume the precious gifts upon your lusts and God will use you, also to that end, we pray.

Our Heavenly Father knows

how to give good gifts to his children.

It was the day after Thanksgiving and the cheshire grin of our Daddy kept a secret in his briefcase. He called the family together and we sat around the living room and opened the briefcase to give us his handmade cards which he took time and crafted with care and consideration. Thoughtful and intimate and caring creations from our earthly father's hands. Enoch said that he thought that dad had a million dollars in that briefcase, like they show in the movies. No million dollars could be as beautiful as the cards and hand creations crafted in love that your father has bestowed upon you in gratitude to God for you.
Our Heavenly Father knows that we have needs and He is aware that those needs include money and we must trust that just as our earthly father took time and consideration to craft his love in a card; so our heavenly Father is crafting the right means for our needs and deliverance of this difficult time. We trust God and continue to trust God far past the inconsistencies of your parents.

Now, Thank We All Our God...

With hearts and hands and voices. Part of Thanking God with hearts and hands and voices is what happens in the preparation of the food which passes on traditions and love that will be carried from generation to generation.
The "mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won" happens for me in the labor for others around the food and the things that are a part of making memories. The memories, good, tolerable and even the sordid memories weave together the tapestry of what makes life and serving family interesting and hopeful, sometimes. The fact that I am not the only one who is in love with the children and husband that God has given me and the fact that, I am not the only one who has ever spent herself in this way, makes me a part of a long line of daughters of Eve who love to give and make the parts of life which we call family for the people in their lives. We are going to do it well and we are going to mess up over and over again, but God knows we are trying to do the job that God has given to us to His glory. I am thankful to be a part of the "maternity" of women. I am thankful to try to represent the love of God in motherhood and through the food and love of Thanksgiving. I love my family and I want them to taste that everytime I give them something. God's love is so much greater.

She gives physical food and spiritual food to her household.

I would never have thought of spiritual food in books unless Louisa May Alcott had considered herself a spinster of stories. I saw in scripture how God says that he "clothes the earth with corn". The Spiritual food that is needed is food to insulate the mind from the deadliest of diseases of mind and soul. There are things we see and hear and read which will stay with us while our souls endure. Taking captivity captive in the mind begins with honoring God and honoring your parents. I don't know how Hannah did it, but it seems that God was highlighting that, in that short span of time, she had raised Samuel; she taught him one consistent thing above the other things: to answer right away and in a respectful way. Respectful responding was so much a part of him, that the wickedness of Eli's household could not wash it out of him; try as they might. They probably made fun of that very thing, by calling him for no reason and snickering ,realizing he would always answered the same way. "Here I am!" Not "WHAT?" What do you want this time? What is it? ON the contrary, he answered humbly and consistently, "Here I am?" It is a mother's loving influence which can cause this tendency to want to please the authorities in life.

We can promote this or discourage this. Fathers, Mothers, Teachers, Authorities, do not provoke your children to wrath...BUT BRING THEM UP. God judged Eli in a way that he knew exactly what God was saying to him. God seemed to say-You raised your children to answer you any which way and they don't honor man or God. Don't ridicule the honor that was placed in this boy by his godly mother. You will not live to see the changes that I will bring to earth because someone prayed for the glory of God to be restored to His people.
Answer rightly, dear sons and daughters.

Two Nights ago I dreamt of the Queen of the South

visiting Solomon. I really never realized how godless the rest of the world was, until that dream. It was a splendid royal dream and a splendid entrance that she made, but for the very first time in my life I realized that the Queen of the South coming from the ends of the earth just for wisdom and being impressed with the Glory of God expressed in the functions and organization and wonder of Solomon's reign was a judgement because they were wicked people who were admiring the splendor of the goodness of God with His people.
She is linked with the Ninevites as rising in the judgement. In my dream, it was partly her fault that Solomon fell like he did. It was as though she carried with her, provocative illusions, which had not yet been seen or heard in the Kingdom of God prior to this time. I didn't realize that there were 2 sides to the rise of Solomon to world renown. One was that the world was exposed to God's glory and the other was that God's glory was exposed to the world.
Let us beware, children that we seek not the exposure that we have no immunizations for the sicknesses and emotional taxes that are a part of that exposure. There is no more intoxicating influence than pride on the soul. Dizzying and threatening to dislodge the most stallwart among us.

She is a THINK AND DO BOOK :>

She gives...


When I was a little girl we had think and do books, where we read and did exercises in the same book. Not the text book where you could read but not mark in it. I think that the woman in Proverbs 31 is not a textbook that you read only but a think and do book where you can sense her tangible loving works.

She gives food to her household.

Oh boy, how convicting a sentiment is giving food to someone else. It is against every human emotion to want to give away food. I have been on the feeding end of 7 children at the moment of their birth and not one of them said "no mommy, you first". They all greedily consumed from my body and would have eaten me alive if they would've had teeth, it seemed. Only the motherly love would have allowed them to do that. Over time and by God's grace, we learn to share food with others and share from ourselves.



Elimelech, when he looked for a wife for Isaac, his prayer to God seemed to say that he was looking for a woman who could "feed a bunch of strange camels and not complain!" He used wisdom and trusted God with the outcome of his search. Isaac seemed to be a doted on only child and he needed a woman who could live with that and love him still.
The woman in Proverbs 31 says not you my son. You need to live in peace with a woman who can share food with you and the household.
Yesterday, I ate my first subway sandwich, all by myself. I shared with no one. I gave no one, a bite or a lick. I hope I can go back to sharing again. Pray for me.

She rises, also, while it is yet night...

We are not talking about a fitful night sleep, like I had last night. Brooding and tossing over words said or not said in haste or in remorse. She rises with the producing mentality set before her. She rises to "make the donuts" so to speak. She rises to go to work on time. She rises to "clean the kitchen" and prepare her "servants": Mr. Dishwasher and Mrs. Coffeemaker and Sally Oven, etc. for their duties of the day. I love the scene in Spencer's Mountain where the father wakes every body up and he has to stoke the wood burning stove and the oldest son has to milk the cow and carry the littlest one to the potty and get himself ready for school. We have so gotten away from the teamwork that it is to get out of the house. This kind of teamwork is what builds a team. Let us do the work that is before us in the household to the glory of God and see if God doesn't bless it to raise us up to influence in this world.

She is like the merchant ships

Bringing food from afar.
In terms of mind food, to me, this means that she is able to take to task the farthest philosophies, in her home, for the glory of God. I love how they said that Ruth Graham was not afraid of contemporary music for her children. She sat with them and analysed the words and took captivity captive in their hearts. She blessed them by identifying with them in their identifying with the young people around them. Humanism, Communism, Idealism, Capitalism are no match for the heat of God's consuming fire of His word. We act like God is cowering in the corner afraid of the philosophies these young people are coming up with. He is greater than all, even their foolishness must bow in submission to Him. Tolerate no disrespect to God and take every philosophy to God in prayer and communication and stand in the gap for your children and your world.
Sometimes we steal youth from our younguns, by making them cross and elderly and cantankerous because of a bunch of do's and don'ts which are man made. I want them to dance, I want them to enjoy their youth, I want them to be young and excited about life and good things. We must be the ones to wrestle these foolish thoughts and ones into submission to God in their young days and not to the traditions of man.
God loves a joyful giver. If they sullenly have turned over their liberties to the traditions of man, it does them no good.

She seeks wool and flax...

She looks for ways to produce and not just consume. Don't we eat enough. Don't we use enough paper and cloth to fill a landfill, not to mention the fossil fuel. I met a young woman who made me aware again, of ecological ramifications of our choices in life.
What would happen if we were concerned to produce with the human beings that we love in mind? The industrial revolution is long past. We are aware now that we have children to prepare the world for. Someone will inherit the earth after we are long forgotten. What about them?
Knitting and crocheting and cloth and traditions are woven. We weave into the minds of our younguns much, for good and for ill. Let us beware that the air and water pollution is not intoxicating to the spirits of the people behind us as well as to their bodies.
Louisa May Alcott considered herself a spinster of stories to clothe the minds of the future generations. What kind of wool and flax are you spinning?

Sobrina en Espana reminds me

that I used to be 22 also. Adventure is a 22 year old setting out on the trip of a lifetime. Marriage was my Spain. Learning to live civilly with eachother. Learning to glorify God in my marriage was as far from me as Spain if not farther. I had no clue. I had no clue of the difficulty. I had no clue of the effort. I had no clue of the challenges. I studied every Biblical thing there was at that time and I was still shocked at the difficulty. Only God has grace and help for the sinful soul. I used to think I could sprint, but it is a marathon and I wish my special 22 year old daughter and niece the trip of a lifetime in wherever you go and whatever you do. Take the Lord With YOU!

Happy Birthday NETTIE!

She Does him...Good?

What is good? She does him, her husband good and not evil, all of the days of her life. Not just for a season or two.
There will be seasons when you are called to help other men in one area or another, but God's feminine liberation begins and ends at home. He is the only man that you are called to do good to all of the days of your life. Others may and will, come and go. I love the beauty of a woman like Sarah Palin, who was able to use her charmisma and public persona and capable speaking skills to beautify the election. With the bright sunshine of the feminine touch to the wrestling match of debate and contest. With her gloves on, so to speak, she duked it out for McCain and then went back to the rest of her life. We may be called to just such contests, but not your children and no job is worth the vow that you take for the rest of your life to DO HIM GOOD!

His heart could trust her...

Not just in front of his face was she faithful to the trust of his providence. Even behind his back, she was faithful. That means no frivolous spending without him knowing it. He knew that she wasn't taking advantage of his love and trust. It takes maturity and growth to get to that point. Help us, Holy Spirit.Your relationship will always test the limits of your loyalty.
The example of Abigail in the scriptures tells us that we mustn't stand with him in unrighteousness, but, in as much as it glorifies God to serve and to protect his interests; it is in your Godly best interests, to be faithful.
In I LOVE LUCY, there were clear examples of conservative old fashioned women who, although they were old fashioned, they tested the limits of financial fidelity to their husbands. It is not being old fashioned that we are to admonish people to imitate. How can a family be unified when we are fighting inside the heart of the family? You want him to give you his heart. And you want to treasure the heart of his financial dealings with whatever you have to give him.
The protector of his jewels.

She is not going to steal from her husband.

He is not going to have a lack of gain, because of her foolishness. Unfortunately, that is a difficult treasure to keep. Too many foolish errors in calculating, in wasteful spending in slowness and loss of provisions through sloth. These are all in vision in this verse. Let us develop our minds to see wastefulness and sloth among us so that we can grow to be the trustworthy ones in the family. Useful to God, useful in our family and useful in the world. Safely trusted, not to be stupid.

You are precious to me, dear children

not just because I birthed you. I love you! But, are you precious to God? He made us and takes care of us and He tells us what is precious to Him. Precious enough to take special care of. Her worth, it states, is far above rubies and then it goes into why.

Can you be trusted? Can you be trusted with your friends' and sisters' and brothers' secrets? That is fidelity. Can you be trusted to carry your share of the burden in love and not in disdain. This starts in the home. You are getting much practice learning and growing in fidelity and comradery. This is why I tell you to beware of only children. Because they learn early to look out for their own interests, which is also necessary for survival, yet, crushing to a relationship. Let them marry other only children, so that they can duke it out together and the love that is developed there is no less true. But learning to care for the needs of the whole and the relationship is your job on the earth, as children reared in a large and unified family.
Stuff is to be cared for, but people moreso.
Be trusted!
God takes care of the whole world, the people and the stuff! The entire care, is His for His glory and He waits His judgement until the sin rises over the top of the cup and then He has had enough. In wrath, we pray, remember mercy, O Lord!

Who, indeed?

Can find a virtuous woman or man? Who, even knows what a virtuous woman is? Mommies love to direct their children about who to befriend and who not to befriend. Quiet and good children...Ambitious and gregarious children, Hopeful and honest children, Generous and sensitive children. Stay away from the sneaky and selfish children, the sullen and timid children, the uninterested and self absorbed children, the uncurious and inactive children, most importantly in our family, those that cannot bear to listen and follow directions. If you cannot listen to father in devotions, we cannot bear to have someone like that in the family. We will tolerate you, but God has discipline for such.
I spent hours listening to your grandfather and God has blest every word, for good to my soul. I didn't understand why the children didn't want to listen. I know now that they had heard the words many many times. The first hundred times they were still new to me. Now, the words are precious in my remembrance. A cup of cold water to an elderly person is the time you would spend listening to the stories of the past. The word of God states that they "overcame, by the Blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony..." We receive testimony from the Word of God and from listening to the elderly testify of the grace that helped them to stand.
Listen to your elders and be virtuous. Stay away from those who would discourage you from that.

We can judge no one, if we do not, first judge ourselves

While self control is a fruit of the spirit, it is also a discipline of grace. As we grow from faith to faith, we can learn greater control over our passions and desires. When we stumble we must get up and reprove ourselves and grow from it. When we are opening our mouths for the speechless, if we are not considering ourselves, we stick our big foot in our mouths and have become ill-effective. Let me look at the Word of God with my own soul squarely in mind, so that I can learn to become an effective spokesperson to or for anyone else.

Psalm 106- In honor of our 44th President--Truly the Most High Rules...

Psalm 106


45. And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46. He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives .
47. Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say , Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord and who endure under tribulation and trust wholly in Him under the hand of the task master. God is great and greatly to be praised.

Open Your Mouth

For the speechless. Open your mouth for the people who can't speak for themselves. Not the animals, per say; but for the "disenfranchised" and oppressed. They used to call them that when I was in school. I wondered every time we prayed in school, they used to say and for all who are disenfranchised and oppressed. In my mind, I always wondered who that was. I never saw myself as one of them and I think that it is so important that children learn to pray outside of themselves on matters that are larger than them. I never got to ask Sister Anne, who are the disenfranchised and what does that mean anyway? It just stayed in my mind until my 25th Highschool reunion and she prayed the same prayer she prayed so many times when we were in school and I said to myself. I used to be the disenfranchised, but no more. I am an effective citizen now and developing effective citizens. I am a part of the process of the growth of our nation. Giving people the words to implore God to become a part of the process starts in kindergarten and before. "God, I am not worthy to recieve you, but only say the word..." Putting the words in the mouth of the children is nigh unto putting the sentiment into their hearts. If the Lord quickens those words into their souls. God enfranchises us and we are His!

Ignorance destroys kings...

The Atlas Bone in the body



If you do not study history, you are destined to repeat it. If you do study history, when you repeat it, you know what the consequences will be, at least. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is not a goal,it is a pit, a deep pit. If you don't climb out of that pit and learn your lessons well, your influence will be abated and snuffed out.



We do not have to be afraid of study, as Christians. We can be as knowledgeable as our minds will allow and we will never compete with God. We know He is in charge of knowledge and all knowledge bows in obeisance to Him and His glory. So just learn!




The Atlas statue

Sloth destroys kings...

I cannot believe that you children did absolutely nothing that I asked you to do on your day off. Maybe you did some few things, but certainly not enough. You encourage yourselves not to complete the tasks. A large family can be a bed or a prod. You can challenge eachother or you can justify eachother. It is up to you to push one another to excellence or let one another stay simple(minded) and ineffective.
There are few things that shame your mother worse than that you do not try to do your best. Doing evil and doing a half job are brothers of eachother. Consistency and productivity are also brothers. Choose the latter!

It is not for kings, O Lemuel?

The precious way that the writer of Proverbs 31's mommy appealed to the positive encouragement toward the good and away from evil. Not "don't do that!", but that is not fit for a young man of your position and ambition. This clearly gets more attention and causes greater affection than the former statement. It takes years to get to the point of motivating young people with this type of ambition to the good, better and best; as opposed to motivating them with threats and antagonism...
Help, Dear Lord.
"I will tell you, my son", she seems to say, "what happens to the people who are given to much drink..." They forget themselves and do all manner of silly things and no one ever forgets what they did, but them. She challenges her son to a higher calling and higher expectations of himself. You have a mission and you have a purpose to think about. You are the answer to prayer and God's got a very special plan for your life... I would that the children would get a vision of themselves included in the puzzle of the future. They may not be kings or priests or noblemen, but God's men are called to live at a higher standard.

Or Your ways to that which destroys Kings...Anger destroys kings!

Anger is probably the most dangerous habit to form so early in life. Count your blessings to be practicing forbearance with many brothers and sisters and people stepping on your toes and elbowing you. This will knock you down much and you will have to learn to get up much.
Self-anger is far more stubborn. Do not get into the habit of name calling and degrading. Wars are started from just such feeble beginnings. It seems, from watching Goodbye Mr. Chipps that I see that the English had a vision of beating their swords to plowshears far earlier than I had seen. "The heart of England" is what the headmaster called their school. Those who learn the controls carry the day. When we neglect these disciplines in education as a nation we are deteriorating the body. The heart is sick. The heart is collapsed and the body is moving without one. Deathly silent, is the place where children have no place to bring their folly and have it corrected or directed.
Education has been seen in rebellious Americas as the place where the mind is filled up like a gas tank and the rich have the information to lord it over the poor and ignorant. I like the heart analogy, far better. Whatever we are as a nation and whatever we agree to be together, we become in the schools. We feed into the progress of the world or the deterioration of the world in school.

What do we do with our anger? Where do we place it and to what purpose is it to serve? We find that out in school. I see now that the SAT's were designed to melt the knowledge of people's histories out of them to try to create a utopian amalgamation with only the distinctions placed upon you by the school. God gave us our distinctions. Rather than root them out through selective means such as SAT's, we should find the effectiveness and usefulness of the child and train them to use their skills for the good of the whole.
One might say "Your anger makes me angry." Their burdens of history need to be rooted out, so that we have one nation. Is that so? One history is God's history and He is the God of truth. Not only the God of the dominant culture. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Grace teaches you and grace molds you into a person who can affect your culture in spite of your inability to forget the sad state that the world is in because of sin. Anger does not accomplish God's will. Grow up a people who can engage in discussions on these points.


I love the Presidential debates, where we see the verbal interaction of great men and how they deal with things which would cause others to be rumbling in the street. It instructs the young men on what to do when this happens to them. Young men need to see men engaged in verbal discussion, even on what makes them angry.
This recent discussion made it clear that young black men can learn from Obama self control as they deal with their conflicts in their spheres.

Attacks come and the other men will taunt you and call you an opportunist for being in a position of leadership and having such that that affords and the temptation is to strike blows at their character for doing so. Self control says that is unimportant. Stick to the topic.
Do NOT Give YOUR STRENGTH to that which destroys kings.

Viewing the Greatness of God, where we can

does much to humble us. God's greatness in His creation is evident. Mountains tall or not so tall are magnificent. God's order of providence to redeem us and to maintain the world. There are none like Him, working all things out for His own glory and our good.
Sometimes all we need to do is look up to be humbled. If we are looking in the mirror too much or at the ground too much we miss the beauty and magnificence of what God has given us to remind us of His majesty.
"Look up, see God, help is on the way..."

Whose Eyes Are You Great In!

When you were small in your own eyes, God states in scripture...When you were small in your own eyes...
God develops the eyes of your soul to yourself. Drinking wine, intoxicating drink, none of these is as intoxicating as pride to your soul. Do not drink unless you are in poverty or pain. More importantly, Don't be BIG in your own eyes!

Or your ways to the Pride and Pridefulness of our day!

I think that it is so significant that the first big challenge of our southern sojourn was the breaking of a bone. Ethan was way up on the top of the bed and fell off to break his arm. We are learning to navigate through the subtle invasive sin of pride that so easily besets us.



We don't even know that we are proud. We don't even know that we are covetous. We don't even know that we are following the way of the unrighteousness of our day. God has let us know that a kingdom is condemned when there are "many princes". Many little princes and princesses who think that they are God's precious gift to the world.
You are precious, dear children. I love you very much, dear ones; but most certainly know that the privilege of poverty and the privilege of suffering with little is to cause you to see yourself and in need and to be that kind of salt in the generation that God has caused you to be an influence in.
The world and this family unit does not revolve around you.
These are the things that "Destroy kings". If you are not given to those things, don't glory in that. Thank God that the privilege of sharing and the privilege of learning to humble yourself in poverty has gleaned that character in your soul. None will see the kingdom of God who cannot see the reality of themselves in the light of the word of God.
What destroyed King Saul? What destroyed Jereboam? What destroyed Nero? What destroyed Ceasar? What destroyed the Pharoahs? The same will destroy the name of Walker off of the face of the earth, if you don't learn from these things. To whom much is given, much is required and they who sin against light are judged more severely.
Beware of the covetous culture that we are rearing you in. Beware of the proud culture of the world around you. Beware of the deception of pride.
A broken arm is minor compared to a deceived soul. Let us stay low and on the ground in our own sight that we would not break the arms or the "neck" of our souls by the pride which blinds us to God and his salvation.
Help us Lord to glorify you with what we have and don't have.

The Paint splatter from the artists on the floor

came up, thanks to the "Rug Doctor"! Hooray! I thought that I would have to live with that mess on their rug for the length. My artists made a mistake and I could've flipped and maybe I did. The Rug Doctor fixed my problem and gave me a better attitude about the decor.

Do Not Give yourself to:

Ice cream, butter, music, pleasure,
We have to be careful, sons and daughters to be balanced in our activities. God has given us all things richly to enjoy.
The more we engage in things to excess is the more that we tax our bodies and take away the liberties of the next generations. We are blessed with bodies from God. These bodies were made to glorify God and to procreate and each family is blessed with a certain number of sensories to use and to enjoy.
God said to Adam, "All the trees of the garden, you may freely eat..." All of the senses in our body we may utilize to God's glory... But none to excess. Help us Holy Spirit!

Tonight, I take my bath to task.

Round 1: The floor:

I made the mistake of pouring half the bottle of amonia on the floor in my bathroom. I was so disgusted at the mess in there and I just wanted to sterilize the entire thing. Now, that I am asphyxiated everytime I walk past there I am giving myself the coffee break to blog about my dilemma.
I will work on the rest of it every other thing is out of there, but the floor was a haywire mess! I cannot see how it gets so messy under my own nose.
I have been more than a little bit remiss.
Well, back in there for round 2: The fumes!

Work Hard and Work Smart!

Others will try to use your mental ability for their own purposes, children. John Henry is a picture of how the stereotype of laziness can inspire a person to kill himself.
Learn the lesson, be diligent but not foolish. The lesson of Mordecai in the book of Esther will show you how God can deliver a person from a froward slave master. God cares that you labor and that you put Him first. Don't try to compete with the computer, my children. Use the computer and these tools as tools. Use them to enhance your labor and teach others to do so as well.
God is omnipotent, God is Omnipresent and whenever we try to compete with progress, instead of jumping on board with it, we will be crushed by the steamroller of progress.
Learn all that you can and use every tool for the glory of God!

Only the Good?

How are you? "I'm good!" Am I good? Jesus said there is none good but God. Am I good? Even in Christ, I am not good, I am well in my soul. I am redeemed in my soul. But if I think that I am good I am beyond the reach of God for redemption because I have set up my own set of universes to rule which are my sphere and I am the god of them. If I am god or a god, then I need no redemption.


How are you, Jayne?

Half-baked?

Why are you in a dress shirt and shorts today, my son and daughter? Why aren't you studying today my son and daughter? Why won't you get a haircut, sonny, daughter? I love your choices in these matters, just give me the reasoning behind your choices. You look beautiful to me as I watch the conformation process through school. I would say that the white shirt represents that your top half is ready for the work-a-day world and your bottom half is still immature and frivolous. Don't worry, It will be a long time of your life that you will be in suits and ties. Walker boys and girls seem to like those items of vesture, not all men or women do.
I want to be a part of the thoughts that make you the man of God that you become. We are in the world, but not of the world, so that underneath the white tailored shirt is God's boy or girl now and God's man or woman in the future, whether I am here or not!

What? sons and daughters of my womb and vows?

My greatly esteemed Bishop Ceasar, the elder of my youth; used to encourage us to read the scriptures. Why? Our eyes probably said to him. He was in his eighties and I, a teenager would want to know how to stay in the scripture even to the old age, like that.
It was a tremendous wonder to me and still is, Bishop passed onto Glory in his nineties, nearly a centenarian and he always said the same thing. "God has a special blessing in each reading of the scriptures. He saves certain blessings for the 100th time that you read a passage."
I could not believe that at the time. I was only grasping my hand around the initial lessons of who is who and what is what in the scripture. Who is Adam?, Who is Noah? I didn't grow up with these names constantly inserted and represented to me. I heard them occasionally, but at 16 I started devouring those names ferociously.
Now, at 46, 30 years later, I see that it is true. The more I devour the heart of God expressed in scripture, the more hungry for God and the more small I become. I am still trying to find out what?

What, Son of my womb!

You guys have so much to say! Fellows, you are always telling me some new information and some new thing that you are investigating. "Guess what?"
You know that you have 2 eyes to see and 2 ears to hear and only one mouth. SHHHHH! LISTEN!
God has so much to say to you, through His creation and through the Bible. Read and Pray and Listen and Look and when you are talking you may have something to say.

What, My Son

The birth of baby Aiden has reminded me of the brevity of life. It 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?