Early in the morning on a typical winter day, you will find a fire crackling in our fireplace while Jim and I read our Bibles. He’s in one room, and I’m in the other, but we both can at least hear the fire. Jim is the one who lights it each morning, and he’s out of town this week.

When the boys came bounding down the stairs at 7:01, Jake observed that 1. it was cold outside and 2. there was no fire in the fireplace. Being the boy of action that he is, he got one going, plopped down in front of the fireplace and read his Bible (the electronic iPod version…his dad would be proud). Not long after that, two more boys joined him.