October 27 – “King Tut”

Two quick miles started us out yesterday.  Good thing we got it in then, too.  Today … it is raining.  And it’s expected to get worse as a cold front blows through.  Not that it is going to be all that cold.  At least not here.  But we are leaving for Waco this morning, and the lows there will be in the 40’s and 50’s.  Where’s my winter coat?

 

I spent the rest of the morning working on a special request Visual Verse.  It will debut in church on Sunday morning.  What makes it so special?  Pastor Kel requested it.  Hmm.  Wonder if he is coming over to the dark side with us visual learners?

 

Right after lunch we headed back up to LaMarque to help with those grandkids one last time before heading to Waco.  I helped Josiah go through his newly available school lesson plan (thanks to Mom’s Herculean efforts from the hospital).  He has a pretty cool history curriculum.  It combines Bible history with secular history.  I showed him how to remember the name Tutankhamen.  He had no problem with King Tut.  It sounds a lot like King Tuck, which is what they call Kyle Tucker on the Astros.  I drew him a picture of an ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life that looks surprisingly like a cross with a loop on top.  And then there are the last four letters, which constitute the last thing you say after every prayer – AMEN.  So there you have it: TUT – ANKH – AMEN.  And the approximate date wasn’t that hard either.  1333.  All those threes.  And Josiah is the third or three boys.  I think he’s got that one.  A lot of the stuff – like Chemistry (why is a sixth grader studying Chemistry anyway?  I didn’t get that until tenth grade) – I really wasn’t much help on, other than to encourage him to read it. 

 

We ended up taking three of the five kids to karate.  Always fun to watch kids wale on each other.  And after class they practiced doing crazy kick-tricks with one of the super-black-belts (or whatever they call him).  Kel took Jachin to his baseball game.  And Ezra, too.  It was one of those nights where Ezra just needed to be around his Daddy, and he wasn’t taking “no” for an answer. 

 

We made it back in plenty of time to catch the first inning of the Astros game.  Ouch.  Home run on the first pitch.  And then the Astros bats grow cold again.  Final score was 6-2, so it wasn’t a complete blowout.  The Braves pitcher, former Astro Charlie Morton went down after getting hit on the leg by a ball hit by Yuli Gurriel.  He pitched to – and retired – three more guys before giving in to the pain.  And come to find out, he had a fracture in that leg.  And just to show the Astros luck last night … that shot off Morton’s leg rolled right to the first baseman, who stepped on the bag for an easy out.  Oh, well.  On to Game Two …

 

Matthew 10:16 says, “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.  Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”

 

Father, thank you again that Christina is feeling up to coordinating schoolwork again.  Give her the strength to put in the work that the physical therapist has given her.  Amen.