I avoided a disaster yesterday…
My son came back to Kansas to find a summer job and save up money for the next year of college.
Today, he slept in until 12:00!
I have a very difficult time sitting passively and watching someone let opportunity slip by, especially when it is one of my children!
“What should I do? I mean, He’s 19 years old. He’s an adult!…
However, I can’t sit idly by and let him slip into being a bum!…
Why did he sleep so late? I’ll bet he was up late last night on that stupid Facebook!!!”
The more I thought, the angrier I became.
He wasn’t home when I got home from work. He was at The Prayer Room reading his Bible and studying Physics. I want him to read his Bible. I like that he wants to study his Physics. However, I don’t like either one of them when YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FINDING A JOB!!!
So I vented to my wife. Although she was much calmer, she pretty much agreed with me.
When he came home a few hours later, he showed us a picture he had drawn of a girl’s eye…
He wanted to know what I thought!
I was thinking, “What do I think about you spending the day drawing some girl’s eye when you should have been looking for a job? What the heck are you thinking????”
But, I said nothing.
Thankfully, I had enough sense to realize that if I said anything while in that state of mind, we would not have much a relationship after I finished. I decided that it would be best to just go to bed early.
