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The following picks are for your deep thinking part
of the mind. Read, think and kindle your gray matter.
Family disasters ...
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The thing about family disasters
is that you never have to wait long before the next
one puts the previous one into perspective.
- Robert Brault
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Family picture !
We've had a bad habit for several
years, we load the film in the camera, take the pictures, and
then put the roll of film in a dresser drawer. Recently, Susan's
been taking a few rolls a week to get them developed. We never
know what we're going to see when we open the package. It's the
closest we get to playing the lottery.
The pictures range from snapshots of social events to pictures
of our children when they were tiny, but they do have one thing
in common -- Susan isn't in the picture. Why? She's the official
family photographer.
While thumbing through the pictures, I remembered a story Pastor
Dan Rhodes told me last year. Dan is the pastor of two rural churches
in Colorado and stays busy. Like most pastors, he has plenty to
do, but by being the pastor of two churches, he has twice the
committee meetings, and twice the worship services.
As Dan tells the story, his daughter's third grade teacher requested
a parent teacher conference with him. His wife usually took care
of those conferences, but the teacher wanted to see him, not his
wife.
At her insistence, he made an appointment to drop by the school
in the afternoon. 'I wanted you to see this drawing your daughter
made of your family.' She said. Dan looked at the drawing and
asked, 'Where am I?' 'That's why I called you down here today,
I asked your daughter the same question and she said you're never
home so she left you out of the picture.'
A Mike Tyson punch couldn't hurt any more than her words. Dan
made some radical changes in his behavior and found that he could
do his job and be a good father.
Are you in the picture with your family? Or are you too busy?
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