Eighteen years ago today I came to Christ at a Billy Graham Crusade in Rochester, New York at about 8:30 PM. I guess a good thing about joining the Lord’s army is that you don’t have to be 18 to in-list! đ Happy birthday to me!
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From The Jewel Box # 2
Our family was recently at a lake where we were just sitting in the water and playing with the kids. We were about to leave so I told our son to put his flip-flops back on and he looked at me and said, “No comprendo.” He is three and a half.
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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children’s names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the “From the Jewel Box” link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.
9-11-01 Never Forget
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic events at the World Trade Center. I’m sure we all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first heard about the collapse of the towers. I was sitting right here at my desk working on my computer when Becky called from work. She said everyone was being sent home because the towers collapsed. I remember balking at the thought because I just couldn’t believe it. I turned on the TV to watch the news. I remember the first time I saw the clip of the second plane hitting the second tower. I thought it was an animated graphic showing us what the reporters “thought” had happened. Once I saw the explosion and the wreckage of the plane coming out of the other side of the building, I knew it was for real. Too many innocent people lost theirs lives that day.
Pray for my Mom. She is going to visit my Grandmother and is flying today. I am sure the events of five years ago will be on everyone’s mind.
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Go Dolphins!
From the Jewel Box # 1
This post is the first of a new series called From the Jewel Box. This will be a regular feature where we will share with you some of the cute things that our kids say. Parents, you know your kids say some pretty funny things from time to time. Becky and I realized this as soon as our kids started to speak. We found ourselves forgetting some of these sayings and decided to keep tract of them, but we had no idea what to do or how to do it until Becky received a gift from the President of Moldova Bible Seminary.
Becky was given a beautiful hand-carved jewelry box for letting me go and teach at the seminary for five of the last six years (I teach a two week class on World Religions and Cults). We were very thankful for the gift, but really didn’t know what to place in the box because Becky really isn’t into jewelry. (Praise God she hates chick-flicks too!) Sure, she’s got earrings, necklaces, and things like that, but nothing worthy of placing into such a nice box. Then it hit me- How about writing down the cute sayings of our kids and keeping them in the jewel box? Since we treasure these sayings like some people do jewelry, it only made sense to place these little gems into the jewel box. Excellent idea if I say so myself!
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This one was probably one of the first quotes we recorded. Our daughter was 2 Âœ years old and was eating a tortilla chip. She picked up a chip, held it up and said, âTriangle.â Becky and I were completely surprised. We had been teaching her about shapes and we were happy that she is learning to identify her shapes on her own completely uninitiated by us. What happened next blew our minds.
Our daughter took a bite out of the triangular chip. She bit the top off, held it up and looked at it again. She said, âTrapezoid.â Okay, now Becky and I are officially freaked. This example isnât funny or cute, but is totally off the charts on the WOW factor. We knew our daughter was pretty smart, but we were not expecting this. By the way, Daddy was silently saying to himself, “So that is what a trapezoid looks like.”
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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children’s names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the “From the Jewel Box” link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.
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