Being July 4 I tried to do what was done with our family in years past. An email was sent with a video and it is online at http://kozlowski.org/2018-07-04+1. For now it is the first item on the home page and titled “Updated Traditional Family Reading - 1st Samuel 8”.

I wrote a significant email to the gentleman who hosted the conference call on Sunday and sent him and others the link. I invited further dialog and looking together at the Scripture. Hopefully I will be able to share with you good things coming from this.

The email included a link to “Preparing our kids to contend” (http://kozlowski.org/2017-06-29+2) since I think it probably demonstrates the maturing in me. Please remember that the focus of that video is to encourage our kids to be able to handle difficult questions and to do so with knowledge, wisdom, and grace. While I worked from the list shown on the page to do the video, the concluding remarks were impromptu. They were transcribed for the webpage and allow me to repeat them:

“If they can’t contend with me on the issues that I just brought up, how are they ever going to contend with the world?”

“If they can’t contend with somebody who loves them dearly, and gives them difficult questions for them to deal with; If they can handle someone who loves them, what’s going to happen when they are around people who hate them?”

“I’m trying to love them. The way to love them is to prepare them.”

“Those who are in my way doing that, get out of the way, you are hating my kids.”

Please remember, Dorothy-Jane, irrespective of what has happened in the last six years, my commitment to you and you alone is unchanged and my love for you has only grown.