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hunter

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23. God told my mom to be a nun.

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 07:43 PM

Feb 2013

My mom's the sort who asks God and He answers.

But on that journey she encountered a priest she thought was creepy. Knowing what we now know about the Catholic Church, her radar was almost certainly accurate.

So my mom ended up in the radio business, met my dad, became a housewife and had a mess of kids.

In high school my mom might have been like your girl following God's will.

I've taught that age group and I probably would have let the girl be if I couldn't provoke any further conversation out of her. Maybe she's got plans she didn't want to express in a group -- something like marry the successful car dealer's son, have kids, be a Sunday School teacher, done. If she stuck around simply listening to the other kids maybe she'd learn something, maybe something they said would spark further ambitions.

The only way I would have pushed her was if I thought she was sassing me, and the odds are good she was sassing you, sensing your attitude about her "imaginary friend" and calling you on it.

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DUers how would you respond [View all] malaise Feb 2013 OP

Thank you for what you do, malaise! . . . btw, I would proceed Socratically, but with less than the patrice Feb 2013 #1

IF God is the truth, perhaps you can see the idea of being invited to participate in the truth, by patrice Feb 2013 #2

I don't try reasoning with these people malaise Feb 2013 #4

I don't know about God, Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #3

True which is why uncertainty is OK and admitting that you never thought malaise Feb 2013 #5

It's an interesting question Aerows Feb 2013 #6

Nothing in her expression suggested that she was shy malaise Feb 2013 #8

My expression may have read as nothing Aerows Feb 2013 #10

Many others didn't have an answer but they gave it some thought malaise Feb 2013 #12

Oh Aerows Feb 2013 #18

What if God lets her know he has plans for her demise at the hand of a serial killer on lunatica Feb 2013 #7

I won't ask her that malaise Feb 2013 #9

Message auto-removed KracevayaKoshka Feb 2013 #11

That would have been too deep for this person malaise Feb 2013 #14

Message auto-removed KracevayaKoshka Feb 2013 #16

So you were rude to a Christian and you want to be high-fived? Dreamer Tatum Feb 2013 #13

Huh? n/t malaise Feb 2013 #15

gawd? I thought that response as pretty clear. el_bryanto Feb 2013 #19

I try not to think too much, it's for the best NightWatcher Feb 2013 #17

Absolutely malaise Feb 2013 #20

I wanted to work with a supercomputer. hunter Feb 2013 #21

valid point - life is often about what happens after we make plans malaise Feb 2013 #22

God told my mom to be a nun. hunter Feb 2013 #23

She's not in high school malaise Feb 2013 #24

Well, since you ask... Mister Ed Feb 2013 #25

I would have asked her Curmudgeoness Feb 2013 #26

Nice response malaise Feb 2013 #27

I would have asked her if she was going to have anything to do with it. lonestarnot Feb 2013 #28

I would have thrown ol' Ben Franklin in her face: AngryOldDem Feb 2013 #29