Perhaps a medicated or disoriented hospital patient asks, “Why are my arms tied down to the bed?” The nurse then replies, “Because honey you keep pulling out your I.V. tubes.” Parents spend years instructing children on what to do and not to do in order to protect them and give them the best opportunity for a happy and successful life. Then as we grow up, we begin to realize that even though we often disagreed with our parents, (ask the nearest teen) that these rules and the motivations behind them were for our own good. Yes?
During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, “How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home?” “Well,” he said, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub.” “Oh, I understand,” I said. “A normal person would use the bucket because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup.” “No” he said. “A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?” Brittany, age 4 had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she’d have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: ‘How does it know it’s me?’ James, age 5 was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: ‘The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.’ Concerned, James asked: ‘What happened to the flea?’ On a particular Sunday sermon....’Dear Lord,’ the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. ‘Without you, we are but dust...’ He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter, who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, ‘Mom, what is butt dust?’
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