Here is a short blog - all I could come up with under the tense circumstances.
A cute way to discourage naggers that some of my friends use against me is that when I give them unwanted advice or instructions they reply: "Thank you, Mom!"
I notice in my own thinking and also that of other parents of adult children that we sometimes sound as if our children were our products and their shortcomings or worse are therefore a sign that we failed in making a perfect product.
A cute way to discourage naggers that some of my friends use against me is that when I give them unwanted advice or instructions they reply: "Thank you, Mom!"
I notice in my own thinking and also that of other parents of adult children that we sometimes sound as if our children were our products and their shortcomings or worse are therefore a sign that we failed in making a perfect product.
But that is a flawed idea. Surely children are free-will creatures of God who make their own good and bad decisions. It is a form of pride to attribute to ourselves all their virtues and negatively to blame ourselves totally for all their faults.
For those of you who pray for my daughter, Carla, who has endured 5 years of lymphoma with hardly a let up in pain in spite of pain-killers, they now say it has spread and she will return to hospice soon.
This image was given to me, to think of all of us needing to be reborn out of Mary’s womb.
Please keep up the prayers. They are gratefully received by all of us.
For those of you who pray for my daughter, Carla, who has endured 5 years of lymphoma with hardly a let up in pain in spite of pain-killers, they now say it has spread and she will return to hospice soon.
This image was given to me, to think of all of us needing to be reborn out of Mary’s womb.
Please keep up the prayers. They are gratefully received by all of us.
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