Growing up too fast

A coworker was discussing the byproducts of this kind of family cataclysm, from when his teenaged son suffered a huge blood clot on the brain resulting from a long congenital defect, that nearly cost him his life. He said the afflicted kids grow up fast, way super fast, a natural result of suddenly having to deal with some very grown up issues. It has its good sides and bad sides.

We saw that in Mark, today, when he had a minor epiphany. He told us, "It makes no sense to dread the inevitable, because there's nothing you can do to keep it from happening, so now I'm not dreading my surgery."

Mark has tried to stay in a good mood and done pretty well with it, but after this observation it still lifted that much further. Wendi often describes a similar mindset about carrying extra worries for no benefit, which goes along the lines of "Don't borrow trouble, because each day has enough trouble of its own. There's no point in worrying about something that might never come to be."

Indeed, consider the lilies of the field. Matthew 6:28