Thursday, January 29, 2009

Angelology at its highest

Here are a couple of recent conversations with the kids.
Andrew: Does Satan smell good or bad?
Me: I don't know.
Andrew: I think he smells bad. And his breath stinks. He doesn't brush his teeth because he doesn't obey his parents.

Me: Will you promise me that you'll never grow up?
Emery: (silence with a little smirk)
Me: Emery! Will you promise me?
Emery: Noooooo because tomorrow I'm going to grow up and be a mommy.

And here are a couple of quotes from The Law of Kindness by Mary Beeke.
"Ladies, try with ALL YOUR MIGHT to keep up your physical appearance." The caps were mine. Isn't that the funniest way to encourage women to do that? That is the last thing I think of doing with all your might.

"Physically, we are the giants in marriage, but God commands us to be gentle giants. We are to be the head not the fist. As the head, you have eyes to admire your wife and see her needs, you have ears to listen to her, lips to compliment and kiss her, and a brain to understand her and think about what matters to her. So if you're the head, act like it; don't act like a fist!" Her husband wrote the chapter on how to be a kind husband.

And lastly here's Andrew finishing up his latest verse, Phil 2:3-5:

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