![]() ![]() When someone says, "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" that can hurt for a month or a year. Paper cuts and spider bites are nothing compared to fear and doubt. Over and around self-imposed danger there are tiny monsters. Those are times we make a conscious (even if hasty) decision to participate. There are social-stand-taking moments and belief-defending moments. There are roller-coaster moments, and daring-saves moments. Here I still am, though, and I was right.ĭanger isn't very comfortable. ![]() What a shock to learn that things I’d thought were really safe before that could make me hurt and bleed-I figured then if books were dangerous, the whole world was a much more dangerous place than I was comfortable being in. Thrilled to be the owner of a new book, I opened it expecting glory and wonder and one of the first few pages cut my finger. I was sitting at my granny's kitchen table in Fort Worth, Texas. My Aunt Mona had just given me a big Bible-story book. I remember having had that "I quit" feeling when I got my first paper cut at the age of five. I talked a little bit about that, and he said "If it might be a little tiny monster, I quit." I asked if maybe an ant or a spider had bitten him, and he said no. I asked if he had burned it, and he said no. On the second joint there was a little red welt. Well, I've had three of them, but on February 2, 1991, four-year-old Kirby came and asked me for a bandaid because his finger had started hurting all by itself. ![]()
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