Children - Heartbreaks and Blessings

I sat in the room listening to my son and his wife speaking of the end of a thirteen year message.  I would have never dreamed in my lifetime this would happen and why.  They have struggled - a lot - but have held together and now . . . I don't know.  He made a really poor choice and this is the consequence. She called me at six and was screaming in my ear.  I couldn't understand a word she was saying.  The only thing I could hear was my son's name.  She got off the phone and I was sitting here thinking he was dead.  I called her back and she had settled down.  The next three hours were one call after another from her, my daughter, and my son.

Funny - the little icon I have on my home page on pornography.  My marriage dissolved because of it and it looks like my son's will be for the same reason.  People just think the only one they are affecting is themselves, please wake up world and know it is no little thing. I couldn't believe that after everything we all went through with their Dad, that they would follow suit.

So I sat until late last night listening to both my son and his wife in pain and I felt it.  I cannot even begin to comprehend the pain the Savior must have felt for all of us.

Genealogy

Technology - a blessing and a curse.  The blessing - I was at the family history library this morning and was on the phone with the technology guy for our center.  He said they learned alot of new information at the Roots Tech conference in Salt Lake this past week.  He said they felt like they were drinking water out of a fire hose.  I'm looking forward to our training meeting this week.

The curse - sometimes technology seems to absorb so much of my life.  I'm trying to be more careful about the time I spend on line.

Saw the dr yesterday and told her I was worried about my weight loss.  She examined me and talked with me and then said "have you changed your eating habits?"  My response was "not really, I quit eating ice cream, and quit eating the sugar free chocolates, and cut back on my breads."  No sooner had I said the words and she started laughing, I felt pretty foolish.  But its great - 10 lbs. in a month.  Feels good.