
Advice for Sons and Daughters God has blessed me with nine sons, one daughter, one daughter-in-love, a granddaughter, and brand new grandson. I often think of things I’d like to say to them, things I want them to remember, things I wish I had known at their ages. Now Lord willing, I should have another thirty years or so with God’s grace and mercy to share these things. However, my dad died at the age I am now, so one never knows. Consequently, I feel an urgency to communicate – I’m just not sure how. I imagine they would laugh if I shook their shoulders and exclaimed, “Listen, you have to remember this! It’s so important!!” They would wonder what I was so excited about – why I was getting worked up. They might say, “Gee mom, you worry too much!” What twenty-something, thirty-something or young-something person likes to listen anyway? I know for a fact over-forty-something persons don’t listen… Ah well, perhaps humanity ...