Few things in life are more frustrating than watching someone you love suffer. Particularly when they're making the bad decisions that lead to their suffering, and they won't take advice from anyone. You can't stop them, you can't help, you can only watch.
Sometimes you wish you didn't love them. Or at least not hear about their mistakes. But it's like watching a train wreck; you can't turn away. And you can't turn off your heart. So you get to suffer along with them.
I think the only reason people ever become parents is because they simply don't know any better. Or they do, but they think, it won't happen to me. My kid will be different.
And sometimes they're right. Their kids are different. Their kids avoid all these pitfalls and snares and make it to adulthood. I rejoice with them. But sometimes, the kids don't.
All I can say any parent going through this, God love ya and bless ya. And pray that our misguided loved ones make through with their fingers and toes intact with minimal scarring. The old saying goes that you can't find any atheists in foxholes when the bullets are flying overhead. I'm not sure if you can find any parents that are, either.
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Raising kids is not for the faint of heart and no matter how old they get, you're still going to worry about them. Prayer does help you get through it.
"The old saying goes that you can't find any atheists in foxholes when the bullets are flying overhead."
I don't get it.
You do suffer through it with them...
But then you get to rejoice in those few moments of happiness and it makes it all worth while.
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