When the Rubber met the road, the car didn't run:(

I don't know what happened, but the balloon didn't push the car and it didn't go. I am sorry honey. You should have had big sister go to school with you. I know that you were probably nervous. I love you and I know you tried to get that car to go. It didn't work, in the crunch.

The tracks of my tears.

Not until the sun hit your face did I see the tracks of tears that were left on your face from the harrowing car episode.
The CAR DO MOVE, now! Finally, after the 150th time the balloon moved the car. Dozens of design changes. Hundreds of attempts and finally the 23 year old help was the touch that it called for. Thanks to the help of the siblings life is better and you shan't fail. Thank you brothers for working with Ethan to get that car on the perverbial road.

Graduation meeting is February 22!

Wow, Grammar school graduate? We have a few months left of grammar school to get it together. Middle school is on the horizon.
Please remind me of the meeting. I really don't want to miss it. You are so special and there is so much that I want to teach you in these last months of Grammar School. There is so much to talk about and not enough time to talk about it. I love the way you think about solutions to problems and the things that are around you. I love the sword picture that you gave me and I am still going to get a frame to put it in. Keep up the work.

Respect Your Elders! This is Black History Month

Who is...

Frederick Douglass

What are we free to do? We are free to serve the Lord. God set us free. From from the bondages of slavery, free from the lacks of civil rights. So that we can show the abundance of the appreciation for the freedoms that we enjoy. Why are you dancing? God has set us free. God has delivered us from shackles of bondage. Bondage to human oppressions. Bondage to self made limitations. Can you legislate ignorance? Can you keep a human from using his God given mental ability? Can you limit people in their bodies or minds? God knows.

He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.

It is truly a shame, that those whose lives and hearts and minds were spared from the sea and ankles and wrists, delivered from the shackles of oppression; if we should take our shackles and link ourselves to ignorance, after this. To whom much is given, much is required. Much liberty, much responsibility. Much sense of gratitude because of the great deliverances from God, much responsibility to use those freedoms to glorify Him. What if the Jews had continued in idolatry, after having been delivered from the slavery to Egypt? Judgement! God said, He would kill them. Moses interceded for them. God has done great things for us, whereof we should be glad.

It is Black History Month, my son. It is time to remember that God has delivered us, into the sunshine of His Love. Into the sunshine of a redeemer, not just for our bodies, but for our souls. Not just a physical deliverance from the shackles of our arms and legs, but the shackles of our hearts and minds and souls. We are God's handiwork. We were blessed with a history of many who have contributed to shine the light.
Frederick Douglass- an advocate for education and mental acumen. Sharpen your mind and make full use of your faculties!

Hello, Fifth Grader!

Are you doing your work?
Last night I got my favorite present from you. On my pillow, was a folder full of work that was done by your hands, with varied marks on them. Some very good, most, were very good.
I admire the humility that put it on my pillow. I admire the beauty that you didn't flaunt your handiwork in your siblings faces. You did well, my son. You are really learning, it seems. You are asking the questions that will lead you to your purpose, under the direction of God. I love you, and Jesus has given us the grace and help to worship Him with our minds. Continue on.