Growing Up Quickly
“So what has a head, a foot and four legs?” Think about that for a bit. It is easy. Honestly. Haven’t got that one yet?
How about, “What has no skin, no feathers, no scales and no bones – but has fingers and thumbs?” Come on it is easy. Try it. Think hard for a minute. You actually own something like this.
“Oh, oh, oh…here is another one… When you add 2 to 11 how do you get 1? And if you add 6 to 9 how do you get 3?”
Big grins jump across the table as the boys spill out these riddles for their friends to decipher.
“I've got one, I've got one… If an airplane crashes on the border of two countries and every single person dies… why are there survivors?”
Or was that, “If an airplane crashes on the border between Canada and the USA, where do you bury the survivors?”
These brilliant minds before me can contain the details necessary for a riddle. They love the ideas of a riddle that pounces on them from no where and then they wrestle with it until it is theirs.
“Grandpa, do you have another riddle?” It is then that I thank the Lord for the Internet and its abilities to provide weary old minds with fresh new riddles – or old ones recycled.
I have a brand new respect for young parents of kids growing rapidly. The fuel that is burned up in these active brain cells is amazing.
With four grandsons on March break staying with us, I have a new riddle. Are you ready?
What has sixteen legs(at least it seems like it), eight arms, makes tons of noise and then moves rapidly from one activity to another? It drinks almost two litres of milk in a breakfast setting, eats seven bowls of cereal, and consumes one loaf of bread in one setting. Yet it is hungry again in less than two hours.
I bet you have already guessed the answer. It is four boys between the age of 11 and 6. They are my four grandsons from Whitby. Now add their two cousins and you can up the quantity by 50% more.
Did you know that A&W is $27 for lunch for my wife and I plus two boys? Add two more and it becomes $32. But that is a bargain in that Pizza Hut is $63 for the two of us with four boys.
I took the boys out for breakfast at our favorite little restaurant on Tuesday morning. They consumed a full sized man’s breakfast each...with nothing but three pieces of toast left.
I will never complain as the cost is minimal. Some grandpas take this age of grandkids to Disney Land and pay the whole works. Can you imagine$$$$?
I will be looking at the future and the retirement mode with reduced income – soon. We may then invite one or two boys at one time… then buy a cow and raise a pig ahead of time – before the visit.
Pause…
I have a new respect for the man Moses. He didn’t take just a few relatives with him out of Egypt. He took all his country men, their wives and the kids…many of which were teens and pre teens. And the one thing that I know – that is not written – they were hungry all the time and there were a lot of them… maybe up to 3 million people. Can you fathom one third of that being kids?
Can you imagine the bill at the fast food joints on that desert? Now I know that didn’t happen. But God did give them manna – every day to help fill their bellies.
The story is moving as you think of the logistics of feeding and satisfying that many – everyday!
Then I switched my thoughts to the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000 with the small offering of small boy. He took the bread and fish, blessed them and then gave it to everyone to eat. That was a miracle. But the hidden miracle is that one small boy gave up his lunch… and that small boy was always hungry – just like our grandsons are… that is why his mother packed a fairly big lunch for one boy.
The last riddle was "Why was there 12 baskets full left over after everyone was fed… Answer - Jesus knew there were teenagers in the audience… that would be hungry a few hours later on…
Answers…
Oh… and the answers to the riddles above are… ‘a bed’, ‘gloves’, and ‘a clock’. When all the single people die, the married ones didn’t. And – the last one is – you don’t bury survivors silly.
And the final one… Grandpas getting breakfast ready… don’t always have time to Blog… so if I miss a day or so this week… I am not sick or have died… I am heading to the store to buy more milk… fetching another loaf of bread and then looking for more riddles on the Internet…
Please pray for me… and Alida…
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
How about, “What has no skin, no feathers, no scales and no bones – but has fingers and thumbs?” Come on it is easy. Try it. Think hard for a minute. You actually own something like this.
“Oh, oh, oh…here is another one… When you add 2 to 11 how do you get 1? And if you add 6 to 9 how do you get 3?”
Big grins jump across the table as the boys spill out these riddles for their friends to decipher.
“I've got one, I've got one… If an airplane crashes on the border of two countries and every single person dies… why are there survivors?”
Or was that, “If an airplane crashes on the border between Canada and the USA, where do you bury the survivors?”
These brilliant minds before me can contain the details necessary for a riddle. They love the ideas of a riddle that pounces on them from no where and then they wrestle with it until it is theirs.
“Grandpa, do you have another riddle?” It is then that I thank the Lord for the Internet and its abilities to provide weary old minds with fresh new riddles – or old ones recycled.
I have a brand new respect for young parents of kids growing rapidly. The fuel that is burned up in these active brain cells is amazing.
With four grandsons on March break staying with us, I have a new riddle. Are you ready?
What has sixteen legs(at least it seems like it), eight arms, makes tons of noise and then moves rapidly from one activity to another? It drinks almost two litres of milk in a breakfast setting, eats seven bowls of cereal, and consumes one loaf of bread in one setting. Yet it is hungry again in less than two hours.
I bet you have already guessed the answer. It is four boys between the age of 11 and 6. They are my four grandsons from Whitby. Now add their two cousins and you can up the quantity by 50% more.
Did you know that A&W is $27 for lunch for my wife and I plus two boys? Add two more and it becomes $32. But that is a bargain in that Pizza Hut is $63 for the two of us with four boys.
I took the boys out for breakfast at our favorite little restaurant on Tuesday morning. They consumed a full sized man’s breakfast each...with nothing but three pieces of toast left.
I will never complain as the cost is minimal. Some grandpas take this age of grandkids to Disney Land and pay the whole works. Can you imagine$$$$?
I will be looking at the future and the retirement mode with reduced income – soon. We may then invite one or two boys at one time… then buy a cow and raise a pig ahead of time – before the visit.
Pause…
I have a new respect for the man Moses. He didn’t take just a few relatives with him out of Egypt. He took all his country men, their wives and the kids…many of which were teens and pre teens. And the one thing that I know – that is not written – they were hungry all the time and there were a lot of them… maybe up to 3 million people. Can you fathom one third of that being kids?
Can you imagine the bill at the fast food joints on that desert? Now I know that didn’t happen. But God did give them manna – every day to help fill their bellies.
The story is moving as you think of the logistics of feeding and satisfying that many – everyday!
Then I switched my thoughts to the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000 with the small offering of small boy. He took the bread and fish, blessed them and then gave it to everyone to eat. That was a miracle. But the hidden miracle is that one small boy gave up his lunch… and that small boy was always hungry – just like our grandsons are… that is why his mother packed a fairly big lunch for one boy.
The last riddle was "Why was there 12 baskets full left over after everyone was fed… Answer - Jesus knew there were teenagers in the audience… that would be hungry a few hours later on…
Answers…
Oh… and the answers to the riddles above are… ‘a bed’, ‘gloves’, and ‘a clock’. When all the single people die, the married ones didn’t. And – the last one is – you don’t bury survivors silly.
And the final one… Grandpas getting breakfast ready… don’t always have time to Blog… so if I miss a day or so this week… I am not sick or have died… I am heading to the store to buy more milk… fetching another loaf of bread and then looking for more riddles on the Internet…
Please pray for me… and Alida…
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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