Friday, January 8, 2016

Do you love children?

I love children.

Children make life rich. What would I do for fun without kids?

Someone has said, "Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun." True!

This was a happy day, a day to store in the heart and remember forever:

Two imaginative boys, their mother, a rope, a picnic lunch, a wooded hillside and good fall weather, at home in Southern China.

counting the graces

thank you Father for

an encouraging msg from Drew, phone calls with a couple friends

Titus open-handed, sharing with his friends

affirmation from Mrs. Yang, Titus's teacher

enough strength

your word is a lamp

kissing smiling, smooth boy faces

help from Zhao Zixuan's mom picking up Titus

singing with Michael

chips and salsa -- a surprise for Drew

Suzassippi1/10/2016
How beautiful! Remembering the fun that can be had with a rope, trees, rocks, and some playmates. Your boys are fortunate to have such a wise mother who knows the importance of play.
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“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. ...

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit. ...your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory