Be thankful, grateful, patient, charitable, kind, and don’t forget to smile, as it is infectious. God Bless America and Protect Our Military!!
Those important things worrying about – parents, wife, children, and grandchildren’s and family’s health and safety foremost.
We all have a heightened sense of awareness when walking in unfamiliar areas or driving unfamiliar back roads in the rain or snow, especially in an older car. Weddings, funerals, and confessions.
In youth: first-time roller skating, Ice skating, riding a two-wheeler, driver’s test, airplane/helicopter rides, skiing, skydiving, ziplining, riding a go-cart, motorcycle or bike, skateboards, scooters, climbing, heights, deep ocean and lakes, fighting, and standing up for yourself, loved ones or others against a crowd of troublemakers and bullies. Saying NO to supposed friends who urge you to try cigarettes, vapes, or narcotics by making you feel less cool if you don’t. My advice: don’t be cool, BE SMART, and get new friends!
Personal first – I imagine as a guy and parent/grandparent- Girls getting their first menstrual cycle, developing, make-up, accessories, school, kiss, date, dance/prom, meeting parents/relatives, first physical encounters, concerts, amusement park rides that make you nervous, job interviews, rollercoasters/Zipper, and the like. Asking a partner for their hand in marriage, engagement, wedding day, pregnancy, apartment/home mortgage, or the birth of your children/grandchildren. Passing of loved ones, parents, siblings, relatives, in-laws, friends, and neighbors.
There are a host of others, some highlighted below.
Point to Ponder: No matter how or under what circumstances the above happen as a couple or single parent, and God forbid deciding to abort a life, which I am totally against. We all learned in math that two negatives never make a positive. Life is a precious gift; your parents thought so! If you’re lucky enough to have children, the only thing to pray for is health. Just ask any woman who has had a miscarriage(s), or had a late-stage pregnancy. Ask any parent who has a child with MS, MDA, or a child with cancer or other serious illnesses. These are hard truths.
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