This one time I'm staying at my grandpa's house and he had

this one time I'm standing at my grandpa's house and he had VHS recorded the karate kid off of TV or something.

I think I've told you a little bit about this scenario before, but it fits here as well.

And so I'm sitting there, I'm watching the karate kid, it's the first

time I've ever seen it, of course I'm relating to the point of view character, Daniel

or Russo. Of course I can't stand Johnny Lawrence. I have many people in my life at that point who are analogous to me with Johnny

Lawrence the typical 80s bullied blonde hair making my life miserable so I'm watching

the thing and I'm really into it and my grandpa is watching me watch it.

And I get to the end of the show and grandpa's like, hey, what do you think about when you watch a show like that?

And we talked for a long time and clearly what he was trying to get me to do was to think

about levels of application for my own character, for my own life.

It was a great-grandparenting moment on his part.

Discipline, hard work, how to respond to bullying, character, being teachable, interacting

with a mentor, whatever it is that he wanted me to think about.

What he was trying to put in my head was this idea that there is some level of application

there.

But at the same time, it's a karate kid.

It's very open-ended.

You could interpret that 11-e gazillion different ways and run off in this direction or that

direction with it. Likewise, in the kingdom parables of Matthew Chapter 13, the personal application part is a little more open-ended than the description of the

kingdom part.

Let me take another run at that.

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