“A long time ago” must be followed by “in a galaxy far, far away.”
“Cuvvies!” is a real word…in a pretend world.
“The sense of touch” is a cue to the other participant in the various hair-playing games we have.
And every new game has its own ritual that must be followed. Every time.
“What we have?” I hear often. “Nintendo or Sony?” When he knows very well we have both. The questions are constant, the answers must be the same…or when they aren’t, we can laugh over “being weird” but still, he must have the reassurance that yes, the answers are always the same. Our world is still as it was, but with a twist of humor. 
That saving twist of humor is what flavors my days and delights my memory. Humor distracts a discontented boy and helps his family come out of the sometimes frustrating hours of someone for whom reason is not the same as it is for the more neuronormal mind.
“He’s tapping my hair,” leads to a circle of hair-tapping, where we count to three, and all say, at the same time, “He’s tapping my hair,” while tapping the hair of the person next to us and having our own tapped in return.
Games that involve the senses. Games that involve patterns. Games that have rituals. Daily interactions that take time but are also ways to bring back a little lad from an angry place, or a mental space of irritation that has no real solution.
Humor. It’s the snappy twist that saves the moment. I am thankful unto God that I have been shown how to use it to good effect. 
I am currently working on a novel I initially wrote more than ten years ago: Summer’s Music. It was never published, but I am going to fix that, God willing, this spring.
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Now, I read the Left Behind series by LaHaye and Jenkins. I did. Almost all of it, including the “kids’” series. Many engaging characters in dramatic situations, some funny moments, and some interesting interpretations of the prophecies found in the book of Revelation and Daniel.
Thing is, the series began on what I believe to be a faulty premise. Nowhere in Scripture does the Lord God Almighty promise that those who believe in him will be evacuated — “raptured” — before the tribulation gets underway.
Nowhere.
Indeed, when Jesus himself was asked about signs and times and seasons, he warned his friends that there was going to be trouble before he returned. He warned of natural catastrophes. Of persecution. Of someone Jesus called the Abomination that Causes Desolation. (Matthew 24:15) Then, he recommends that folks head to the hills, and expresses woe for those who are pregnant and nursing when all of this happens. Nowhere does he mention that these women won’t have to worry, because their little ones will be caught up to Heaven. Nowhere does he say that his people will be able to ignore it all because they won’t be around.
Instead, he says that there will be great tribulation. Trouble such as never been visited on the planet before. And if the days were not cut short, Jesus says, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect — those who are in the body of Christ, those who are saved, those who have salvation already — the days will be cut short. (Matthew 24:22)
Doesn’t this speak directly to the pre-tribulational Rapture theory? If you are a Christian, and you claim to believe the Bible as God’s word and you believe that Jesus’ own words are to be believed then you must heed them.
And he says for us to prepare against a time of great trouble. That time is quickly coming upon us.
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