someone asked, "How did you respond?"

Following my melodramatic rant over being a failure (oh, the theatrics!) - followed by my much shorter mea culpa - someone wondered, "So, how did you respond to the family?"

This was it, in a nutshell...

your father needs you to be there for him.  it's a bother, an inconvenience, an intrusion - and it's real life, real time.  we are talking 2-3 hours extra a month - not a day, not a week.  a month. 

there is a reason we are instructed BY GOD to honor our parents - it ain't easy.  no one knows that better than i.  did you know that it's the only commandment that has a blessing attached to the doing of it? 

i was there for mom.  it was TOUGH.  yet my life right now is golden.  is there a correlation?  maybe it's just that i learned a lot.  (caring for an elderly parent could be right up there with raising children for helping us learn to let go of our ego & expectations.)   then again, maybe it's something more

how y'all resolve the coverage is up to you.  i've never beseeched y'all to step up to the plate - until now. 

being a child of aging parents can be super tough, but - approached with right attitude & action - can be bring forth benefits & blessings we can't imagine as we slog through the trenches.    

but don't take just my word for it...