I’ve got my fair share of idiosyncrasies. One of them is that I never read a book I don’t own! And the reason for that idiosyncrasy is this idiosyncrasy: I never read without a pen so I can underline. If I don’t have a pen it’s not worth reading! I’m an underlining machine! Anywho. I’m passing this idiosyncrasy on to my son as we read through the New Testament. If he reads without underlining it doesn’t count. Then at our FSMs we discuss the underlined verses.

So this Sunday we’re at church and Dave Clark, our campus pastor at Georgetown, closes with a Benediction from I Peter. And that is the book Parker and I went through last week. So Parker leans over to me and says: “Dad, I underlined that one.” Maybe you had to be there. But it was a moment for me!

PS. One of my other idiosyncrasies is bolding words.