The Appian Way??? It's Sumner or Sumter not Sutter.

I think you will find this amusing... My dad and I used to ride to Brooklyn in the car together. He found every shortcut, it seemed and I just watched him drive through all kinds of neighborhoods, to get to a place that the highway would take us in a minute, it seemed. He knew the streets like a boy who had walked those streets and learned them by heart. When he was a boy, you couldn't even drive on some of them much less walk or a gangwar might ensue. We found one street off of Linden Blvd that went all the way into Brooklyn and he would say it to me everyday as we traversed the "mean" morning traffic to find a "quicker way". Is this quicker? I would think to myself, though I would never say it. It was Sutter or Sumter or something like that. This song makes me think of those long silent trips.

Reminiscing about Myrtle Beach as we await the snowfall tonight!

A time at Myrtle Beach?

Do You Walk like an Egyptian?

"When did you hear that song, mommy?" I am not as dumb as I look, eh?

That is not Christian music? I am not saying that it is.

Learn with all of the mental faculties you can muster. That is walking like an Egyptian. By the time they had subdued the world in Joseph's day, they had wrestled many truths out of the devil's hands. God stomped them like they had stomped the children of Israel, but He had every intention of saving them, and the ends of the earth.

Faith doesn't give us an excuse not to study to wrestle the dominions out of the devil's hands. We must do that and stomp on his demon head. That is the redemption of "Walking like an Egyptian". I pray you walk with your feet on the devil's head and your hand in Jesus'. Amen.

Great job on your movie, I just loved it. I hope you get a good grade. :)

Stuff that I didn't learn by osmosis...

Some things we do seem to learn by osmosis, don't we? I might have a mental block about some things, but I didn't learn anything about God by osmosis. I was taught it and it was told me, but I didn't learn it. How could that be?

You are made in the image of God and for His glory.

What happens when children don't get a grasp of this truth early in life? You can't beat that truth into them? You can't just tell them about it. I really never got that truth.

Catechism is a framework of thinking

When the building blocks come together and the scriptures come together with the work of the Holy Spirit, that is when you get it. Until then, it is just a bunch of facts and figures. The highest calculus is simple math in comparison to God's reality, without the Holy Spirit's ministry of it into your soul. We must pray for enlightenment...We say, Lord, I don't get it. I don't see You in the stuff my parents and the elders are saying. I really want to know what these people are saying, but, without your Spirit there is just a vacuum of talk...Why do they get so excited about worship? Why do they listen and talk about God so very much? Show me, Lord the reality of Your purpose for my life. I really want to know that. What is in Your image? What means for Your glory? How can I stop my own self seeking? Those are the spiritual questions of life and I really do hope that your experience will be that God made these things very real to me in my earliest time and I had the privilege of walking with God from my earliest remembrance. Love, Mom.

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?