Novice Fork User Fishes for Eggs & Growing Up in TRUTH

My son Silas, 1.45 years old, navigated a difficult transition this morning over his eggs and dry Life cereal. I wanted to eat my eggs while they were still hot so I figured he could at least stab eggs with a fork and get them into his mouth....after all, how hard can it be? Apparently, the skills I have acquired in scrambled egg eating over the past 35 years are more of an accomplishment than I realized. It was not a pretty thing, but Silas did manage to get a good bit of the eggs into his mouth. A fairly good portion, however, ended up where breakfast eggs go to die (once a baby is officially sitting on his food, I consider it dead).

 

The highlight of this morning moment was watching my son lay into his eggs with his fork like a coffeed-up construction worker with a jackhammer. Silas figured out that where his skill and finesse in egg stabbing failed him, his power and speed could make up for it. So he stabbed at his little innocent eggs like my wife plays Whac-A-Mole with the kids at Chuck E Cheese's. And it worked. After about ten rhythmic stabs he would come up with a little wad of egg.

I have termed this interesting way of eating eggs - egg fishing, since, like fishing, there is a measure of sport involved. You cast out your line in hopes of landing the hook as Silas casts down his fork in hopes of landing an egg. Even when the eggs are not biting, he comes back for more. It's not just about catching something. It's the anticipation of the next big egg mass that makes egg fishing so exhilarating!

As I watch my son making many transitions from baby to little boy I am thankful that he is transitioning at all. As much as I love his cute little baby-ishness now, I would not be happy about it at 16, or 11, or even at 3. As time passes he must continue to mature in all things. I will help him because I don't think an 11-year-old boy should still be egg fishing, or a 16-year-old eating only scrambled eggs and dry Life cereal for breakfast. At some point he needs to transition and join me for a gravy-soaked country fried steak at Cracker Barrel.

My New Ipad & The Big Green Phone

I am officially changing the name and look of my blog.

Why? Well, it may very well have to do the fact that I just recently was given an Ipad. Being given an Ipad has a way of changing your thinking on more than just electronics. I have almost officially transitioned from out of date to up to date. I say "almost" because I still do not have a FaceBook page, and I still wear a number of shirts that were cool in the 90's.

I am very encouraged however by my recent emergence into relevance. The transformation has come none to soon, since my Mom has had her Ipad for almost a year now. I don't think I could have lived with myself much longer knowing that my Mother was culturally more in sync than I.

And now to The Big Green Phone...

I have never owned a big green phone but I imagine if my house phone was big and green (and yes I realize having a house phone does once again call my cultural cutting-edge-ness into question) I would probably tend to answer it more. It's very difficult not to answer a really big green phone. For one thing, the bigger the phone, the bigger the ring; and for another, well, green kind of grabs you unless you're color blind (I never claimed this blog would be deep...although it will sometimes...and this I now officially claim).

I want The Big Green Phone to represent a curious, captivating call to Christ centeredness (mental bonus points for alliteration would be appreciated).

I am of the opinion that Christians need a good bit more of Christ in all of life. The categories I'm thinking about include: Family, food, work, play, vacation, education, church, movies, music, budgeting, friends, service, romance, clothing, shopping, thinking, and blogging. Of course the list doesn't end here, it just goes on until we finally reach Christ in all things!

The Big Green Phone is a wake up call! It's an attempt to challenge those who know Christ and those who don't to find their satisfaction and security in Jesus Christ who will have preeminence in all things (see Colossians 1:18)! 

So here we go...RING. RING. Some calls are worth answering...I hope this blog will be one them.