My Ramblings

After posting yesterday’s blog entry I got to thinking about the relationship between father and son. Daniel and I had many talks about life and what we should do as we go through it. This involves being responsible, holding a job, providing protection, housing, food and the other necessities for loved ones; being law abiding, not hurting others, especially our wives and children; not taking advantage of anyone. We talked about how I had disappointed my Mom (my Dad died when I was 11) and how Daniel had sometimes not lived up to my expectations and not followed my instruction. Sometimes he made me so angry with his behavior (which I will talk about more in the future) and even though I loved him, sometimes I did not like him. Then, today, I realized that no matter how much he angered me, or did not follow my counsel, or broke the “house rules” repeatedly, I still loved him. When he asked me to forgive him I did – every time. I loved my son and I forgive him for his last, terrible mista