I was eighteen and entering college full of hope and aspirations. My dad and I had not always seen eye to eye but I had appreciated his plain wisdom and down to earth advice. This was that moment - the moment of wisdom. He was about to hop into the car with Mom and take off for home some 500 miles away, leaving me completely on my own for the first time in my life. I asked him if he had any words to live by. With a doleful look and his best pastoral voice he said words I will always remember. "Son," he said, "don't do anything stupid." With that he was gone, while I, with the predictability of a Tom Hanks Oscar, completely and utterly failed to live up to his advice.
Entries for month: March 2009
Grace in a Three Stooges World
Posted by Mark Kruger