Luckily my father and Grandfather (his father) were very practical men. It's not that I agreed with them about everything either. It's just that they proved to me if I wasn't practical enough I was going to die.
And for this I'm very grateful to them for this.
Why?
Because the main thing I have noticed all my life is that people who aren't practical enough often die very young (before 30) and especially before 12 and especially before 20. I watched many people die that I could not save and this broke my heart in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s especially because the 1970s I was in my 20s and people of my generation (just seemed to be dying to get out of this world any way that they can).
Philosophically I understand this. In some ways you have to be really crazy to try to survive here on earth at all.
However, I have found that if you make survival an interesting Game that you play and teach your kids to play too then your whole family survives as you watch almost everyone else die along the way.
So, though it's very sad to watch people all around you dying or being maimed in various ways in life there is also a lot of satisfaction of actually making decisions that make your life and the lives of those around you better too.
So, I find as long as I am as kind as possible to myself and all others they tend to keep me in their prayers because I'm saving them as they are saving me.
By God's Grace
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