Moving through my 6th decade of life has been filled with a litany of family dynamic changes, age Inf Inf my career, new homes and locations...through all of this, there are moments, in my quiet, introspective place both spiritual and temporal, I wrap myself around the path I’ve laid...
Life is mostly brutal. People and demands upon me seem at times even more brutal. If there has been anything I’ve learned, even at this very late part of my life, is that good parenting brings critical dividends to your children. My parents were not success stories. Then again, my experience seeing and talking to tens of thousands of patients and parents only exposes significant weaknesses in so many. For most of us, a ‘broken home’ either creates so many voids for a child that there remaining time on this planet is a psychosocial football field with gains and losses. That faction where parenting fills many many ‘holes’, well, that’s a gift for a kids future adjustment. There’s always an exception to the rule...I feel like God did Grace me...and, I don’t know why. In my now 43rd year of serving mankind, from my microcosm perspective, I’ve been Blessed and I’m perfectly fine saying so...
I also learned that career matters, station in life helps put food on the table and satisfy your ego. All of this comes at a cost. Balance in life, at times, feels unachievable but that balance is what helps preserve ones soul, relevance. To persevere in ones resolution to reform, remaining close to God within, may allow one to be saved. This saying, etched on a metal stake is found at the stations within the GROTTO, Emittsburg, Maryland
