Hosannah!
….So our surname is Kyle. Right?
That has caused some confusion and not a little laughter since moving from Ireland where it is usually a last name to the US where it is usually a first name!
As I intimated on the last blog 11/11 (would that be 4?) did turn out to be an interesting day, certainly from our personal point of view.
In the afternoon I had my usual bible study with 3 of our 9 grandsons. We had been discussing what we should call ourselves and had settled on WW4K standing for Warriors of the Word 4 the King. The 4K also doubled for the fact we were 4 Kyles. We always have a good time studying the truth and applying it to our lives and today’s crazy world! We also have a lot of fun together….plenty of Kyle smiles!
My attention then has over the last few days been drawn to 2 American ‘first name’ Kyles in the public eye.
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has been getting a lot of media attention. While he has been portrayed by the Main sewer Media as ‘a villain’ he has always struck me as a ‘Noble Kyle’ It has become clear to all at the trial that this ‘community minded’ young man was rendering help and acting in self defense when his life was threatened by three convicted felons. The prosecution was devastated when their key witness confessed the he had indeed pointed his gun at Kyle, who then shot in self defense. Isaiah 59 comes to mind….
So justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands at a distance;
truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter.
15 Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;
so his own arm achieved salvation for him,
and his own righteousness sustained him.
The second Kyle popped up on Dr John Campbell’s videos. You might remember my concern about the good doctor’s myopic view of reality. I dip in occasionally to his chats, so was encouraged to sense an openness and empathy toward another ‘Noble Kyle‘, This young man with a great attitude has been V injured and is seeking to advocate for others who have also been damaged, after receiving ‘the jab’.
On the evening of 11/11 we had arranged to go to our God daughter Ellie’s for dinner. Her husband’s first name also happens to be Kyle! He is what I would call another,‘Noble Kyle‘
You might remember at the end of our road I noticed two streets one after the other………
We brought a number of belated birthday and housewarming gifts since Ellie Kyle and little Hosannah have just moved into and radically restored a new home.
Ellie along with Abby and Josh (now Gilbert) as little tikes, used to be our cute Irish dancing trio in Kieran’s Irish pub, back in the days of St. Brendan’s Launch. Ellie is still a dancer (more Hebrew now) and so was delighted with her ‘decorate your own tambourine’ gift from Israel via Paddy and Breda in Ireland, but as you can see above, it was now her little tike, Hosannah, who employed it right away.
“I get so inspired by the story of Miriam leading the women in dance with the tambourine.” Ellie enthused.
I recalled the blog I posted that morning was about the great victory at the Red Sea with Moses celebratory, song which was then echoed by Miriam who lead the tambourine wielding women as they danced singing…..
“Sing to the Lord,
For He has triumphed gloriously!
The horse and its rider
He has thrown into the sea!”
It was an inspiring evening as the joyful couple told story after story about how God had miraculously answered prayer and provided for them even as they had chosen to “seek first the kingdom of God” The large home he had entrusted to them reminded us of The Big Green House. Their hearts are also for kingdom hospitality and as we finished the evening in prayer I was drawn to the fireplace.
“That is the one thing we would have liked at Rivendell“. I said, “But it looks like our Father has given it to you : – )”
I recalled The Flame*** painting and how these two have each received from their parents that flame of faith and love which they in turn are faithfully passing on to their daughter, and Kyle, who teaches at a Christian school, to his students.
He said all such schools are bursting with long waiting lists as people flee the anti-God and anti-family public school system. The fact that he mentioned incidentally to his class about the new house and a few days later was presented with a very generous gift, after a whip round by the families, spoke of how highly he is regarded and how his love is being reciprocated by these believing families.

Hence the blog title….
3 young Kyles + me
3 ‘Noble Kyles’ + me
= (2) 4 Kyles
………..and cause for smiles!
When we got home, and I checked GKM, the day was rounded off with this good news………
Australia was the country for which The Flame song was originally given, and Melbourne the city that I blogged about on September 29th.
As my friend Brian would say, “Happy days” and as my friend Tom would say, “The best is yet to come!”
“Let the flame burn bright within you.”