And yet Joseph feels there is nothing wrong with it.

Just five minutes ago, at the dinner table, on the Lord's Day, Joseph got upset with his brother, picked out the plastic prosthesis from his right ocular cavity, and threw it at his brother.

Oy vey.

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Kevin, husband of a truly angelic woman, and father to ten.
Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

His brother may well be scarred for life.

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Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
John Donne

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Was the lesson today from Mark 9:47?

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Texas

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Ed Asano
Member, Center Grove Presbyterian (PCA)
Edwardsville, IL

Lord, I am willing to --
Receive what you give,
Lack what you withhold,
Relinquish what you take.

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I'd keep an eye on that kind of behavior if I were you.

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Nate
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
Ann Arbor, MI

Umm... so just when would this actually be acceptable manners?

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Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
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Umm, how would I look that up in Miss Manners? Would that be under table manners or the proper way to throw body parts?

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JWithnell
Member Bethel OPC
Virginia
http://learningyesican.blogspot.com/

Upside: You now have an embarrassing story to tell his future marriage prospects. :P

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Scott - Dallas, Texas - Faith OPC

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." - Edmund Burke

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WI
OPC
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This is so amusing . . .

I grew up with three younger brothers, who being close in age with each other, produced some colossal fight scenes in our home. I like to remind them from time to time how awful they were with each other, although now as adults, they are very close and the finest of friends.

However, this takes the cake!

I can't wait to tell them about this incident.

It will impress them.

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Ronda Rush
Church of the Redeemer
Independent Reformed
California


" . . .It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" Matthew 4:4

I don't want to give my brothers ideas. They don't have replaceable eyes.

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

How many of us have an eyeball available to use as a weapon?

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

He used the equipment available to get the result he wanted. Impressive!

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We have more than enough of those already. No need for more!

Joseph had his right eye removed because he was born with a mirco opthalmic right eye (it was about the size of a pea and blind), so we had it removed and replaced with a prosthesis when he was about 3 years old. Covering the spherical prosthesis is a white plastic cap which has the pupil/iris on it. This is the part he can remove. He once, before he could talk, signed to Elizabeth that he had eaten it. I've never before seen it used as an offensive weapon, though. This is new.

Lol!

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Polly
wife and mom
participating in an OPC church plant effort in Collierville, TN
living in N MS

That is something I would do, had I a removable eye.
I'd watch his temper : )

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jessi
PCA
Steelers fan exiled to Virginia


“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”
Martin Luther

The problem could have been avoided if you would have had nice, rounded dinner rolls that he could fling instead.

Did it break?

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It did not break, and it wasn't like he was furious, he was laughing after he did it, but Isaiah had made a snarky comment, and instead of replying in kind, he threw the eye. I just couldn't believe he did it. If you had a peg leg, would you throw that at someone who made an ungracious comment? It's just weird.

Is that what happened to you, bat-boy?

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Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

He sounds like a neat kid!

You wouldn't throw a leg ... you might miss, and you might need to hit the person more than once. So you take it off, and beat them about the head with it.

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Brian Withnell
Deacon, OPC
Leesburg, Virginia

You cannot train for war in the midst of a battle. Prepare before the battle starts; if the battle is long and hard, you will wish you had.

Just wait til your son gets older and figures out the practical joke side of his eye. I had an uncle who also grew up with a glass eye. My grandma still tells me about the times he secretly put his glass eye in people's soup to frighten them.

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Patrick
MDiv, RTS Jackson
Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church (OPC), Lisbon, NY

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.
"Let us not please ourselves that we have deep understandings, but let us shew our understandings by our practice." Richard Sibbes

Maybe not a leg, but an eye is such a small thing, sort of like throwing a napkin at his brother...

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Matt
Reformed Baptist
Christ Community Church

Hold old is he.

I remember my son who would show how upset he was by throwing his insulin pump onto the ground as hard as he could knowing that it cost a great deal of money..... I remember braging to the pump company that there pump was pretty rugged to stand up to this abuse. They got all worried and sent out a new pump.

I've learned that just because a kid has a medical issue, the do not stop being kids. And that there medical issue becomes part of their life. And that means if they have a motorized wheel chair, do not be surprised if they try to run someone down with it. Yes, you have to discipline, but take joy in the fact that there disability has not prevented them from being a child.

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Michael McNeil
PCA
Ellicott City, MD
www.spepchurch.com

This is such a weird story. I love it.

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Calvinistic Baptist
Ukiah, California
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ORGAN FIGHT!

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Upon a life I did not live; upon a death I did not die, Another's death, Another's life, I'd rest my soul eternally
Omnia dicta fortiora,si dicta Latina
Si vis pacem, para bellum

No, I was pretty normal until your fuzzy cuteness melted my heart.

Whatever, Bat-tlejuice.

No problem there. Some folks have asked us what it is like having a severely handicapped child and we've had to tell them that it would take them hours and hours of serious talking (perhaps days) to convince him that he was handicapped. He grew up in China as one of several children in our neighbourhood who had physical impairments: a good friend with severe syndactyly, another missing a pulmonary artery and whose lungs are thus fed by capilliaries, many with cleft palates, etc, etc. One fake eye is fairly normal, as far as he's concerned.

You two (Py3ak) sound like blood brothers.

Am I right?

I'm no brother to a flying rodent.

Sounds like a familial and brotherly attitude, to me.

Im...at a loss for words....soooo many questions arise. haha

Hands down one of the best threads i've read in a while

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Brian E
Attending Falls OPC
Menomonee Falls, WI

We've never met, Josh the Cute and I, but if we ever do I'll be sure to wear disposable gloves.

I totally thought you meant he shot his brother a dirty look. I really didn't think the story was going to turn out like that.

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Evon Taylor
Community Bible Church
Swansea, Il