Hello, my friends. I'm so glad you've joined me again for the Morning Mindset,

Kerry Green here. I am thankful you're here to get your minds aligned with the

truth of God. And if you're new to the Morning Mindset, welcome. I'm glad you've

joined us. We also have another platform called Not a Needy Person, which is based

on the premise of one of the stories that's told in Acts chapter 4, where in the

early church, there was not a needy person among them because they were voluntarily

giving of their own resources to meet the needs of others. At our website, not a needyperson.org,

we're doing the same thing. We're allowing believers an opportunity to submit their needs

so that others can give toward their needs and help meet those needs. You can find out more

and not a needyperson.org. But welcome, welcome. I'm glad you're here. All right,

today we're looking at Proverbs chapter 10 versus 1 through 5. And we are moving into a section

of Proverbs that is more along the line of the general typical approach of a proverb, where it

lays out simple statements many times that are contrasting two things to make a point about the

wise way to think about that issue. Okay. And so today, we are looking at Proverbs 10 1 through 5.

And it begins by saying, a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Now you'll notice Solomon often uses son as the one who is the object of discussion. And he'll

use father and mother as the authorities in that person's life or the ones who have invested

themselves in that person. And he uses those terms kind of interchangeably. So where you read

father, it could also be mother, where you read mother, it could also be father. And here, the point

he's saying is that if a mother and a father have a son or daughter and that person is wise,

those parents are going to be glad parents. They're going to be happy. They're going to be

satisfied. They're going to be so blessed in their spirit that their son or daughter has become

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