It is great fun to watch Benjamin learn new things and take an interest in new studies and subjects. He is really improving his chess game and seems to play more offensively than defensively. He is doing very well in his homeshooling and is racing through his curriculum without missing a beat. I am very impressed at how easily he is able to diagram a sentence and can quickly pick out the subject noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition and object of the preposition. He is able to read his Bible very extensively and even likes to stay up late at night reading it. As a parent, you want to tell him to go to sleep but you can't tell him not read his bible. He was giving me a lesson on the book of Jude the other day and telling who Jude was and why he wrote the book and what the problems were with the churches he was writing to.
Basketball is going very well for him and he will have his last game this Saturday. Most games he will score a couple of baskets, but he is getting more willing to pass the ball to the open man. I tell him that an assist is as good if not better than scoring. Most of the boys he plays with don't want to give up the ball because they want to score. We are really seeing his skill level in basketball improve very quickly, but I strongly emphasize to him that I am much more interested that he display the character of Christ and not how many baskets he makes.
I look forward to being able to take Bennie to India in the next couple of years; at least that way I know that Janey will come with us! She won't let me take Bennie to India without her. :)
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