First, he didn't come to Christmas Eve Service. Mention of acknowledging the end of relationships resonated, but I cast it aside. His late night apology for not coming to church seems insincere at best.
It all started when he didn't remember the kids had told him about house sitting He was ready to kick them out and told them not to come home for Christmas? He had been drinking of course, but how do you argue with a drunk man who cannot remember that he had been told and protect two young people with perfect recall that remember the discussion, but are being accused of being selfish and ruining Christmas?
How do you even get to a point where the discussion (yelling actually form his vantage point) could make any sense? Kids ask a question and they get shot down. Kids suggest something and he goes in the opposite direction. Completely unreasonable, mean spirited and hurtful. We were all crying except him and then after he blubbers that he just wants a nice Christmas? I don't get it? It takes more than the way he treated everyone last night. Because I am crying and cannot express myself - how do you speak when you know that the truth will ignite even more grief on what is supposed to be a night filled with Hope, Peace, Joy and Love and it is being completely trampled heartlessly? How could I have dealt with this differently? How could I have prevented the hurt? Why do I think I need to? Heartbroken and angry at the selfishness and the ignorance of the impact this is having. Needing God more than anything right now.
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