Question – Thought & And for the last day of April 2014!!!

See ya April!

1. Question – Which way is forth?

2. Thought – There is a proper way to educate and there is a proper way to govern, and they are both known. Today we do these things in a different way, which presents a serious and perhaps fatal problem for our country. But repair is possible.

Take education first. The word “education” comes from the Latin word meaning “to lead forth.” And if you think about it, “forth” is a value-laden term. Which way is forth? The Bible tells us to “raise up a child in the way he should go.” But which way should he go? How does one come to know the answer to that? After almost 14 years as a college president I’m an expert on young people between 18 and 22, and I can tell you that if you ask a young person today which way is the right way to go, more often than not he or she will answer: “It depends on which way you want to go.” Young people today give that answer because they’ve been taught to give that answer. But it’s the wrong answer, and the activity of getting from there to the right answer – the activity of coming to know which way is the right way – is education. Thus “to lead forth.” (Imprimis December 2013 Issue, by Larry P. Arnn)

’stulti Latinam linguam rident’

Rem

Question & Thought & ANDs…

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AND:I had the experience of meeting a man, in his thirty’s, one night who was looking for my oldest daughter age 18. He had met her at her work place, she had told me, and kept asking her out. She said he would not take no for an answer. When he arrived at our door I answered the door with a shotgun in my hand and suggested that it would not be healthy for him to continue. My daughter told me that she never saw him again. Sometimes a father has to do what a father has to do. I was fortunate that my children were born while I was well into my military career so that in my last duty assignment I was home most of the time. I missed the very early years but made up for it while they were still in school. Blessed by God with two wonderful daughters, three grand daughters, and two great grand daughters.

Question & Thought for April 29th, 2014!!!

Good Tuesday Morning!

1. Question – What standard does a daughter compare her boyfriends to and thus judge their worth as men?

2. Thought – From Alan, father of three children under six years old: A friend of mine, whom I’ll call John, was a middle-aged manager in our company and a compulsive workaholic. I knew him socially through our church. He had one son and a daughter, both in their early twenties. We used to carpool together to work.

One Monday, as we were driving to the office, only the two of us, he looked terribly distraught, worse than I’d ever seen him. I normally don’t pry into people’s affairs, but I asked him if he was feeling okay. He then poured out his problem. That weekend, his daughter told him that she just became engaged to the young fellow she’d been seeing for over a year. So, what’s the problem, I asked?

“The guys an idiot!” John blurted. “He’s a lazy, unbelievably immature drifter. He has no degree, no plans, no ambitions, no drive whatsoever. He’s childishly self-centered, thinks of nothing but his own amusement.” He paused to control himself, then muttered in a low, despairing voice, “I give the marriage about a year, tops.”

Well, what could I say? I tried to give some hope, but we both knew that not much could be done. I glanced over to see his anguish and recognized I was looking at the ultimate horror of a middle-aged man – to see his beloved daughter plunging into a bad marriage, stubbornly deaf to her father’s warnings, and there’s nothing her dad can do about it.

I’ve long believed that big problems in a family take a long time to develop. They don’t just happen overnight. It seemed to me that John’s compulsion to work long hours kept him away from his daughter while she was growing up. She hardly knew him. Because her dad, who should of been the main man in her life, was virtually a stranger, she had a void in her judgment about men’s character. To whom should she compare her boyfriend’s and thus judge their worth as men? She had no frame of reference, and so she emotionally settled on a superficially attractive lightweight. In a way, it wasn’t her fault.

John, I suspect, knew deep down that the fault of this problem pointed straight to him. He should of spent time over the years getting to know his daughter and letting her get to know him. His ongoing neglect was the real cause of his distress. Now he would pay for his inverted priorities. It’s a fact of life: you can’t unpour concrete.

Quietly I made up my mind, and firmly: I will never go through this with my little girl. While she’s growing up, I will be there, no matter what. (Father, the Family Protector by James Stenson)

Thanks, great book!

Rem

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Question & Thought for 28 April 2014!!!

Good Monday Morning!

1. Question – Are you willing to get out of the boat?

2. Thought – Faith is spelled R.I.S.K.
TGIF Today God Is First by Os Hillman
Thursday, April 24 2014“Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, ‘Lord, save me!'” (Matt 14:29-30).

Jesus told Peter to get out of the boat. There is always a risk when we attempt something never done before. Naysayers seem to come out of the wood work. Why? Because it’s not their vision, it’s yours. Sometimes we fail the first time out. It’s a fact that most entrepreneurs fail before they are really successful.

“Success,” said Winston Churchill, “is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Everybody fails. It’s part of the process that leads us to maturity and success. Most successful entrepreneurs don’t think of their failures as defeats. They think of them as lessons.

If you hope to succeed, learn everything you can from your failures. In The Three Success Secrets of Shamgar, Orlando Magic executive Pat Williams observed, “Our experiences may not all be triumphs and successes, but so what? Failure is usually a far better teacher than success – if we are willing to learn the lessons. As Houston Astros pitcher Larry Dierker observed, ‘Experience is the best teacher, but a hard grader. She gives the test first, the lesson later.'”*

God never gets mired in our past failures. He is constantly viewing our lives with future success in mind. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isa. 43:19). Someone once said, “When your memories are bigger than your dreams, you’re headed for the grave.” God wants to give us new dreams that are bigger than anything that has ever happened to us in the past.

Don’t let past failures keep you from future successes.

Rem

Question & Thought for the last Sunday in April 2014!!!

Good Sunday Morning/Evening! Interesting how a tornado can change your landscape in 2 minutes. Saw one for real. We just got power – since Friday nite. People – are good. God is Great!

1. Question – How do we ‘Get Wisdom?’

2. Thought – O God of the ages, grant that I, who am the heir of all the ages, may not fail to profit by the heavenly wisdom which in time past Thou didst grant to Thy servants.

A wise man wrote,

The World is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.