Then there are days....

My son Booga was confirmed in a special needs catechism.

He came home one night and it was pouring rain.

And Booga began telling me about Noah and the flood (as if I had never heard this before). Then I asked him what happened afterward and he told me about a rainbow with pretty colors...

He remembers everything.

My son Chewie, had been checking out a series on Television called Rome, which, he says is pretty good. I have to agree; although it tends to shock me, with my Midwestern values and all. I just forget sometimes that this is HBO and they have no moral boundaries.

I asked him about a character on the show named, Octavian. I said, "Do you know who that is?"

He shook his head at first and I said,” Do you remember who Caesar Augustus was?"

And he looked down for a minute, "...And Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world..."

"Yea." Wow, he remembered that.

"Same guy." I said.

"Oh so this was the Emperor who Paul stood in front of..."

We had just been hearing about Paul in Rome at church that day...And I was stunned that he remembered that. You think your kids aren't listening in church sometimes...

I said, "It amazes me how God sets up things to fall into place, the Romans were put into power and became a world power just as Christ was born, and really with the conversion of Emperor Constantine, Christianity really took off...Albeit three hundred years or so after Christ...But in the grand scheme of things...It's amazing.