PARENTING

Those who have children have parenting stories. I recently read this:

‘The story begins some 5,000 years ago with the Sumerians, those lively people who settled in Mesopotamia (part of what is now Iraq). When you read, on one of their clay tablets, this exchange between father and son: “Where did you go?” “Nowhere.” “Then why are you late?”, you realize that 5,000 years are like an evening gone.’ (Source Unknown)

I think I remember this well. Both saying this to my parents and then hearing my kids say it to me. It seems ‘nowhere’ has been a destination for a long time. I think what could have added to this story: When asked, “Why were you so late?” The answer is, “I don’t know.”

Or… Did you hear about the buffalo that dropped his kid off at school? He said, ‘Bison.’

“Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great.” Jesus