Category: Dear Son

Dear Son, don’t let this temptation stop you

Parking lot
Qdoba’s parking lot is microscopic compared to the local Theme Park parking lots.

 

Dear Son, don’t let this temptation stop you.

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can.

Man outside of Qdoba last night: Hey buddy, I’m kinda homeless, can you spare anything?

Dad exiting with his dinner to go: Sorry, i don’t carry cash.

Man: Ok, thanks anyway.

Dad, walking to parking lot turns around and goes back to the man: Have you eaten dinner today?

Man: No.

Dad, explaining it’s a simple children’s chicken quesadilla meal, with chips and guac.

Man: I don’t want to take your dinner.

Dad: i can buy another one.

Man: Gratefully accepts the to-go bag, grabs his small backpack, and walks away.

Dad, returning to his car notices the cashier who rang up his meal – she was watching the whole thing go down.

She seemed surprised. And maybe a little heart warmed.

So what benefited two, actually had a ripple effect for a third.

Unintentional.

That’s how powerful actions are.

Intended or otherwise.

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Dear son, please give the extra money to Ms. Y

Church Mass presentation
First Sunday of Lent 2015… what is God’s dream for you?

 

Last Wednesday was our son’s classmate’s 14th birthday. And, coincidently, Wednesday is also the optional midweek classroom dinner at a local restaurant. A tradition started by Ms Y, an attorney turned (brilliant) Montessori middle school teacher. She has two daughters at the school, one is also a middle school classmate.

Gave our son twice the dinner allowance and suggested he give the surplus to Ms Y, to pay for his classmates (birthday) dinner, but with a caveat. Ask Ms Y to keep it a secret and don’t tell anyone.

Trying to teach what books struggle to keep up with – the notion that in giving, we receive. And to learn to give without expecting credit or reward.

To learn that the giving, in and of itself is the reward.

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Hear the echo of, “This is probably too difficult”?

American Dinner time table
Two nights ago, what did he see and feel that was “invisible and unspoken”?

 

Is there an echo in here?

We should behave so that our children (if we are parents) have a real-life example, or as close as humans can get, of what Jesus is like.

Where else will they get this?

Seriously?

Where?

A book, a class, stories?

You’re joking, right?

What if they saw it across the dining room table? Everyday.

If not now, when?

If not ever, why?

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What is our major responsibility each day?

Martin Luther King Jr photo from prison
Photo from a Facebook update yesterday.

 

What is our major responsibility each day?

To model to our child, children, nieces and nephews how to live gracefully in a world that attacks us from every side.

Life is hard.

Our major responsibility is to show how it’s possible to thrive in spite of this harsh reality.

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