Lured by Infinity

I know that many men (and women) struggle with guarding their heart and mind while on the internet.  Likewise, our children are becoming very proficient on the internet.  On the web, there are many great thing but also many very destructive things.  So, I recommend Covenant Eyes as a tool to assist in this battle.

Covenant Eyes provides two services, which you can get separately or together.  First, they provide internet accountability through a report that gets sent to your accountability partners.  Second, they provide internet filtering.  Check it out and use the internet wisely.

Recently, my wife, who is a homemaker, mothers 3 little ones and is expecting a 4th, became ill.  Normally, she presses through little infirmities in order to perform her daily activities.  However, this time was a little more severe.  She was in bed for 3 days and was slowly recovering for another 3 days.  Thankfully, I was off from work already (between school quarters), but I learned first hand that when Mom is sick the house just doesn’t run well.  I thank the Lord for my wife–her gifts, her diligence, her patience, her love.  She brings much in terms of quality to our home.

The words of Proverbs 31 are ringing in my ears.  “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels… Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

Last night at dinner, I was talking to my 6 year old about her math test.  After telling me that she aced her test, she said that she remembered one of my math problems (that she had seen lying in my office from last quarter).  “You know Daddy the one that had e+f” (it was really x-e, but close).

She was excited because she had aced her math test and thought she’d remembered something from my math class.  Then, my 4 year old piped in and put us all in perspective.  She said, “yeah, but you know guys coloring is funner.”  She had been coloring while the elder one was taking her math test.

Boy, I wish I was coloring right now.