"Unfortunately my lunch break is over :)"
You're amazing, Jonathan. You do on lunch break what takes me a snow day to consider.
Judy asked, Why is it important? For this reason we also ... do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ... giving thanks to the Father who ... has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. -- (See Col 1.9-20)
Bill -- could not agree more with both observations. The lunch break intellectual wonderings of Jon are the reaso why I have decided that he is rather large headed. (its a compliment). My most favor - iiiiii - te writer is a man named J Ridley Stroop. He was Restoration all the way but without the ranker. He was able to speak or wirte by weaving the biblical message into his speech in such a way as to force one to conclude that the written word was truly a part of who he was, his nature. You have imitated that with the answer above. Don't let anything, emotion or slander, get in the way of your development as a Teacher. Such is clearly your calling.
John
