Ezekiel 12:1-14:11
Hebrews 7:1-17
Psalm 105:37-45
Proverbs 27:3
The Proverbs verse for today is particularly timely for us.
James doesn't normally talk too much about the things that he does at school. Being a typical boy he simply goes "Uh, we did pig painting. It was brown and yucky. It wasn't a live pig though..." But this morning he talked forever about a boy in his class who has informed him recently that he is "a girl." The reason for this moment of gender confusion on the part of his classmate is that when asked what his favourite colours were the other day, James said, "Green, Blue, Orange and Pink."
Green, Blue and Orange were all perfectly acceptable colours for a boy to like but pink, according to the boy at his table, was not. So now James has had to put up with days of "You're a girl!" Now asides from the fact that it is very odd for anyone to use the word "girl" as an insult it is also a pretty good example of the truth of Proverbs 27:3 "A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier."
The effect of this other boys foolish words were pretty heavy on James this morning. Hopefully he'll get over it pretty soon and I'm sure he'll dole out his own fair share of foolish words. In the meantime we'll get to showing him videos of Stade Francais thrashing lesser rugby teams and assure him that he most certainly is a boy.
1 comment:
Your an ass
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