--Esther Burr, wife of Aaron Burr; daughter of Jonathan Edwards. She died when she was 26, in the year 1756.

"ordinary works that are done in faith, and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth." Luther

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began (Titus 1:1–2)

Hear me out: 2 nodes. Dojo & Knots Boom. 😂

"God will never give you more than you can handle." Not True! For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. (2 Corinthians 1:8–10)

disciple your children. never over-estimate what they know; never under-estimate what they're capable of learning. Teach them theology, the Queen of the sciences.

"GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,b nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." WCF 3.1

spontaneity ≠ creativity

Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15)

To be spiritually minded is life and peace.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. (Proverbs 9:10)

“But God is unique and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires, that He does.” Job 23:13