Some days are better than others.
Saturday 6-28-08 was one of those days.
1. My daughter, Von Behr, rode her bike for the first time without training wheels. We have been going for long walks most days for the last two months. Angel and Von ride their Razer scooters while Kim and I walk the hike-and-bike trail in our neighborhood for 45 minutes. I think the time on her two-wheeled scooter prepared her for two wheeled biking. She was awesome! A vision on her little purple bike with a purple helmet, two long sleeve shirts, and wool mittens on her hands all in the 90 degree heat. She had a little trouble getting started, but once she was going, she did great. Stopping was not really a problem like I thought it might be. I’m sure we were quite the sight with me running along beside her in case she fell.
2. I found the power supply to my scanner. I’ve been looking for it for over a year. It was in the drawer of our antique buffet. (Of course it was)
3. Kim now has internet access in her home office. Hey, it’s only been a year! I had to buy and install an ATT 2Wire modem/wireless router. For some reason the Netgear wireless router kept locking up.
4. We had dinner at the Clay Family Restaurant (on Clay road). It’s a chicken fried steak kind of place, very Texas. They have a huge playground for the kids with a petting zoo and sandboxes. Kim and I sat inside watching the kids through the big windows in the dinning room. I put Kim’s phone in Von’s pocket, and when our food arrived I called her to come inside. Genius.
5. Our Sony portable DVD player starting working again. We only use it for long car trips, and we are getting ready to take another one. Good timing.
To be patriotic is uncool. Popular culture tells us how uncool it is to be patriotic in every way possible, it’s everywhere we look. For example, if a character in a movie is waving the flag and says that they “love their country” then they will probably turn out to be a bad guy. They will use the motive of loving their country to do some horrible crime against humanity. You know it’s true. You’ve seen that movie, too.
What if the sin of Adam had caused mankind to break the law of gravity? Instead of losing the ability to naturally follow God’s moral law, suddenly he and Eve would float around, grasping at tree-tops to stay on the earth. Making for themselves ropes out of fig vines to tie themselves to the ground and to each other. The ten words that God gave to Moses would describe which way was actually up and which way was truly down, ten ways for mankind to get their bearings. A complete description of what gravity is, for a race of people who could no longer obey it naturally or understand its purpose.
Vacation Bible School (commonly known as VBS) is part of our culture, and not only the “church” culture. VBS is an event that many churches put on in the hope of reaching out to families through children. The hope is that the good news of Jesus Christ and His victory over sin and death will be received in faith by the children who attend the event. The hope is also that the parents of the children might discover a church home if they do not have one. These are noble hopes.
It is a terrible thing when a child is born with a handicap or a physical deformity. And although we may be tempted to stare ourselves, we teach our children not to point or act rude toward the child. We generally have compassion towards the child and we wish that something could be done to make things better for them. What we mean by this is usually that we wish something could be done so that the FIRST THING you see is not the handicap. If the deformity was repaired then their fellowship with us would not be tainted.