A conversation at home after Fast Meeting.
My 13 year old son: “Mom, you gave the best testimony today. The best testimony…ever!”
Me: “Is that because I said you were awesome?”
Son: “No! You just made me feel…I don’t know.”
Me: “What? I made you guys cry?”
My oldest son: “I wasn’t crying!”
Me: “You weren’t?”
Oldest son: “I was crying on the inside.”
Youngest son: “I’m serious. You made me feel…all empty inside.”
Me: “Empty?” He said it like it was a good thing.
Son: “You know. That feeling. Where you’re all…hard…inside.”
Like all good parents everywhere, I pretended I knew what he was talking about.
Susan – having raised four sons who are now respectfully 32, 30, 28 and 23, I came to the conclusion, while they were in their youth, that it be a few more years before they really learned to express themselves with any kind of coherant dialogue. I waited and it worked. They’re all doing fine at it now.
I’m sure you’re doing fine too and believe me, they will come out of it.
Comment by lamonte — December 2, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
They felt the Spirit… I hope you pointed it out to them.
Comment by Silus Grok — December 3, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
Wow. That sounded more snarky than I intended.
Sorry, Susan.
Comment by Silus Grok — December 4, 2007 @ 10:33 pm
Sorry, forgot to reply! I didn’t take it snarky at all. It was a good teaching moment that I missed, but I’m not too worried about it. This kid gets it.
Reminds me of when I saw a young man outside after church crying one day. I asked my oldest son what was up, and he just said, “The Spirit.” Turns out they’d watched a rather moving video in PH that day.
Comment by Susan M — December 5, 2007 @ 7:54 am
:)
Comment by Silus Grok — December 9, 2007 @ 10:08 pm