Show me how to wrap my scarf, mom?

The big independent 6th grader has never had to wrap a scarf around his face. This morning was different! It was 16 degrees outside and the little walk to the busstop from the house would send chills into the young lungs of my budding man. Try this nice scarf, darling.

How do I wrap it mother?

A darling word from an ever endearing sweetheart. I spent days on the busstops in freezing weather and never thought to ask how to tie a scarf around my neck. That is the difference between the eldest of many and the youngest of many. I should have taken that as a class in school, scarftying. I would have been a lot healthier had I been wiser in my childhood. We rolled out of the bed and hobbled to school the couple of blocks and many days we got there as an iceblock. Mom yelled and told us over and over to wrap up. I forgot to ask that one important question that my Ezra taught me today.

How do I tie a scarf around my neck, mother?

Well, it is never too late to learn, eh?

Grandpa's movies will have to do to tell us about the good old days...

Jesus is really the answer!

Stuart Little

Choreographed fraternal pugnacity!

What, my son? When you are the best in the world!

To me you are always the best Ezra in the world. Even when you have a temper tantrum and I can't tell if you are faking or really doing poorly! You took your shot from the doctor, very maturely.

ON the other hand, Socks and a clean shirt on picture day? Why? You have taught me, mommy, that my soul is the most important and I know that my picture is my mother's most treasured, whatever it looks like.

We really did try to get a clean shirt. In fact we had 3 alternatives, but, as I made the left to go to the doctor's office the spots called out my attention. I mustn't change them, mother. They are significant! How is it significant for you to show the dirt of your toothpaste and sundry other spots on your yearly picture.

My soul is clean, though my shirt may not be.

I pray that your soul would be the most important adornment that you are showing off and that you learn to see the imitation of God's excellence as a thing to aspire to, as well. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Let us glorify Him in our excellencies, as well as in our infirmities. and let us not rejoice, until the race is fully run for our souls.

We Got through Chapter One of our catechism.

It seems so much harder the older you are to go back to the basics. We must never let them slip out of our grasp. Earlier years we tried bigger bites at earlier ages. I will never know if they really listened when we were reading "Westminster and Heidleberg", Stepping Heavenward and Berkhoff when they were youngsters. Sometimes it doesn't seem so.

Then, I look at someone like Horatio Nelson, who was reared in the pablum of good doctrine, just to become a man of war. It seems such a waste. I do hope that these heartfelt attempts to introduce you to the God of peace will produce a peace in your heart that will resonate and become contagious. Don't miss the opportunity to walk with God from your youngest days.

What are God's Works of Providence?

I say, God's works of providence are a woman being able to help her children learn what God's works of providence are.

...His most Holy, Wise and Powerful, preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions I am very grateful for the tools to inculcate truth into my children's hungry hearts. We are going through, what we consider a baby book of doctrine that was penned by Pastor McArthur. I hope we are enabled, by "providence" to complete this task. :)