First off Happy Birthday to my angel in heaven Brad Michaels birthday is today. He was born 26 years ago today. 🙂 He is with my mom and grandparents celebrating and watching over us.  A few of His friends are in heaven with him Benjamin B., Scotty Mac  and Alex H.  Until we meet again.

I was sitting here today in the silence of my home thinking after my post was completed and my mind drifted off to a deep recess of my mind and pulled out a memory of a conversation that I had when I was a teenager with my mom and dad. It reminded me of a writing on this blog recently about the fears and stressors that kids have in their lives at that time.

I remembered in detail this morning that discussion with my parents some 40 years later. I look back now at that conversation and see clearly that my young uncomplicated 17 year old youth could not get what my parents were saying.

I did what people who cannot defend their position do , I yelled, banged my fist and fled the house. When we are young we sometimes cannot accept the truth and wisdom and the reality check that we receive from those that we love when we ask an opinion of them and do not like the answer that we get.

Fortunately for me, my parents let me come back in good time to them when I was ready to sort things out. Again, the dignity of my own decision.

We as parents deal with this from time to times ourselves. Now that we are in the parenting role we can clearly see what our parents wanted for us. The best. 🙂

I had a good friend Mark when I was a growing boy and he was going through a lot of personal stuff with his parents. His father in particular. I remember telling him Mark your father loves you and  thats why he is strict with you.I could see it clearly in Marks family but not in mine because sometimes the perspective is too close.

So in life some lessons are not easy forgotten for a good reason. We may need them In our own families to lead the next generation forward. Amen.

Thanks mom and dad 🙂

God Bless You,

Danny