Grissom Gazette

I was born in  Karamürsel, Turkey, back in 1961.  This is what it looked like back then.  I would like to go there and teach in the American School. I could spread the Gospel steadily, proclaiming Christ a hundred times a day.  I greatly miss living abroad.  Fourteen years in South Korea was a delight. There seems to be something good about believers leaving their homeland and going to another location.  Jesus seems to have said something to the effect that no prophet is accepted in his home country. My oldest son and I have long considered moving to a small mountain village in the hinterland of North Korea, "buying" some land there and growing food, raising honey bees, teaching honeybee craft, making wooden ware for various kinds of beekeeping equipment, and teaching juggling, baduk, and the Bible to the village people interested in learning those sorts of things. He and I speak the language; whereas, the other children were exposed to the language,...

So, you might be interested in home schooling?  We have done it for nine years and found it rather felicitous.  If you want something done right, sometimes you just have to do it yourself.   There are many advantages of home schooling.  One is that you do not need to worry about the loss of hope a child gets from just sitting and waiting for the next thing he is expected to do.  Down time is higher in public schools, for they need to keep order and keep everyone together, kind of on the same page.  It is more difficult in this respect teaching in a public school room.  Accordingly, we should include consideration in our prayers for  public school   teachers struggling to make ends meet regarding the need to imbue students with a sense of dignity and its corresponding "elated to work" ethic, along with the equally important respect for others we find embedded in the story of the Good Samaritan, who despite being a people group despised ...

Greetings, from Genteel Grissom, where the wind sifts softly through the early morning trees. I will reprint an earlier work, from the summer of 2012. Dear Folks,   David and I got into a heated game of chess this morning and he beat me.  I now owe him a year's supply of food, as per our gambit.  David likes to play chess, but is still learning how all the pieces move.  I think he knows the names of the pieces pretty well now.      Nathaniel and Ashley have a piano lesson this afternoon at 1:30 p.m.       Nathaniel was up late last night pacing about the house, something he does when he is thinking.  He needs the peace and quiet of a home where all is still and everybody else is asleep, to do his thinking.  He was thinking about conversations he had had online, on YouTube, where people debated evolution and the existence of God.  Nathaniel has "suddenly" become interested in that, and so I told...