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AND HER SIPPY CUP IS A GOBLET

Maddy came home from kindergarten with a little booklet similar to booklets sent home from kindergartens coast to coast, no doubt. It’s titled “All About Me,” and it features her drawings about her house, her family, her friends and so forth.

Besides the amusing lack of hair on my husband’s head and the graceful, swan-like, four-foot neck on the drawing of me, the most striking thing about the book is its dramatic style. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since she calls me “O Mother of All Lords” when she’s sucking up and actually bows and “worships” toward the sack of cheesy Lay’s potato chips since they’re her favorite.

Now THAT’S cheesy.

But these drawings are quite dramatic. “My Home” depicts a four-story purple castle with many blue windows. “My Birthday” shows an enormous cake, floating in the sky, with kelly-green frosting.

What really makes the booklet dramatic, though, is Maddy’s subtitle for it. She calls it:

“The Deeds of Life.”

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Praise report: Lord, You blow me away. Yesterday, we prayed for a senior in high school who revealed to one of his teachers that he cannot read or write. Within hours, not one but TWO women came forward offering to tutor him, for free, using systematic, intensive, explicit phonics, such as he should have had in the early grades of school many years ago. Both are mothers of sons who also struggled with reading, and both became experts at supplying the phonics skills the schools should be supplying, but so often don’t. Both, also, are strong Christians who live their faith. Their community spirit, compassion and willingness to shuffle their schedules around to help a complete stranger are extremely inspiring and encouraging. Bless both of them, Lord, and work all the details out to make this happen, for the boy’s good and Your glory. (Romans 8:37-39)