Bronson's First Birthday

Tired birthday boy

A Late Spring Post

This was our yard a couple weeks ago.

 

 

Plum Blossoms

Here is Bronson while I was taking pictures of the yard.

Warlord Pride

Last week was Badman week on the base.  It was a week filled with sports tournaments.  Each squadron on the base competed against each other in basketball, volleyball, dodge ball, softball, bowling, 5k run, golf, and others.  Luke participated in quite of few of these.  It was a nice break from the usual work schedule, and it was fun for the families to get together with all their gear on to cheer our teams.

This is the dodge ball team.  Obviously they won best uniform.

 

They wore loin cloths for their uniforms.  Luckily, most of them wore shorts underneath.  When they disrobed, gasps were heard around the gym.  I think they also did a little chest pounding as they were approaching their opponents.  The Warlords sure have squadron pride.

The first game ended with Luke against 4 guys from the other team.  He swiftly and gracefully got them all out, and Warlords won!  The second game didn't end in our favor.  Maybe next year.

My First Colts Tee

Baby Model?

"Bringing Up Boys"

I have been reading Dr. James Dobson's book called "Bringing Up Boys".  It has been very enlightening.  The book is focused on some of the big dangers that boys are facing in today's culture.  It's very scary to think about all that is against boys in American culture.  But it's comforting to know that there is someone much greater who is looking after Bronson, who can protect him so much better than I can.  Here is a quote that I read today from a chapter about postmodernism.

"The interesting thing about postmodernists is their ability to live comfortably with contradictions.  Why?  Because there are no troubling absolutes to be reckoned with.  For example, moral relativists celebrate human dignity and racial harmony as precepts but then advocate killing (or helping to kill) the elderly, the unborn, and even full-term, healthy babies as they exit the birth canal.  Human life is expendable if it is inconvenient.  'Wait a minute!' you say.  Those ideas can't coexist in the same mind.  'Sure they can,' says the postmodernist, explaining nothing...

Now what does this moral relativism have to do with raising boys?  Just about everything, in fact.  It has confused all the age-old distinctions between right and wrong, between proper and improper, between priceless and worthless, and between human and inhuman.  It has also resulted in a moral free fall that has yet to hit bottom.  Postmodernism has given credibility and free reign to every form of evil.  Yes, I said evil.  Boys, with their tendencies to push the limits and defy authority, are the ones most vulnerable to it.  They are enticed into terribly destructive behavior that would have been stopped cold in its tracks by previous generations, who knew that some things are unquestionably wrong and that all ideas have consequences."

I'm really praying that God will equip Luke and I to counter the culture in our parenting and that Bronson will grow up to be a godly man.  I'm reminded of these verses.

Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."

Ephesians 6:4, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
   

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