A family's strength and cohesiveness comes with a strong sense of self from an individual point and from a radiating group all the way to country, and led by God. Liberalism and its followers are on a perpetual, life-long decline, which at some point in their lives - when someone (or too many people) close to them die, when they get sick, or when someone close to them gets sick - they realize where they're headed. They have given away too much and to get nothing in return!

Many aging liberals are miserable. They may have family (wives/husbands, children grandchildren) but with too many caveats. They have forfeited God for ....what?!... is passing on his misery and horror to me. He wanted me to be disturbed and to lose my peace of mind which he doesn't have. He wants me to lose the joy of life!

He did say though that my presence makes her calmer. He is afraid that I would just leave!

I think few sinners are true repentants. They have done too much and come too far to ask humbly and nakedly for forgiveness.

Perhaps my only role now is to continue to marvel at life and at what we have: time with my Mom; the photographs I take; the honey from the summer farmers' market; the bookstore in the mall;

And seeing my joy for life, and through God, my Dad may acquire the peace that he yearns for, and the forgiveness that he needs to ask for.

Kidist