Healing

Healing can come in many different forms often in ways you least expected. I had an experience of this tonight from my youngest daughter. She is in college and we were at a nice Italian Restaurant and I was having a gluten free pasta version of pasta Bolonaise and was very happy because I can't always get this type of thing where I live near San Francisco. So, I was really enjoying this meal for a change. (Being Gluten free is very difficult at most restaurants) (but the good part is I keep losing weight because I don't like most gluten free foods) (Also, I am more pain free because of this than in my 20s because of giving up all gluten too).

So, being pain free at 66 is really something.

So, we are talking and she says to me, "Dad, you really need to join a church." This to me is amazing considering that she doesn't believe in God. So, I began to realize just how much she must love me really having this conversation with me.

So, I said to her, "I found out in my 20s that I am way to individualistic to fit inside of any church."

She was not having that until she realized her not believing in God was going to be a problem taking this conversation any further.

However, later I realized how much my daughter must love me to even try to have a conversation with me about this. She just wants me and her mother to be happy and worries about us because we are now alone without her. It's nice to be loved by your 18 year old daughter that is just as determined or stubborn as you are. Healing. Our kids are all now 400 to several thousand miles away from us in college or pursuing their careers elsewhere. It's hard. But, also we can afford the plane tickets when they want to see us too. Healing.