Just a quick note...
For James, who has TWO daughters to see into adulthood, and for my sister, who has one...
And for the boys, who will CAUSE all this angst...
Our 16-year-old had to face the soul-crushing prospect of going an entire night without speaking to her boyfriend (because HE was grounded, not her)... and I can only find the words to describe her pain and suffering in that wonderful "Biblical" theme:
"Great wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Yes, the very phrase that Christ chose to employ when describing the suffering of souls that were refused the Kingdom of Heaven... THAT is the phrase that best describes this poor child's look at the dinner table. To look into this girl's red-rimmed eyes, streaked with the still-damp trails of tears already shed, one can only see the urge to continue with the "great wailing and gnashing of teeth"... nothing else.
Two hours later?
Boyfriend gets ungrounded, phone conversations are back on... all is well with the world again.
"Suffer the children to come onto Me... for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Mark 10, 13-15
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