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'mild' jolt from Jostein and Darwin

(note: this is the message i sent my friend darwin this morning)

choi,

thanks for that wonderful sharing about relating with parents. i have just finished a book last night from one of my favorite authors, Jostein Gaarder. the book is called The Orange Girl, which is about a dead dad's letter to his son (Georg) he made 11 years ago, a few days before the dad died.

the story tells of the love story of the dad and the Orange Girl, which happened to be Georg's Mom.

at the end of the story, Georg advises to get to know our parents more--specifically, their lives before they got married, and more importantly, how they got together.

i got teary-eyed with a lot of things Georg told me about relating with our parents, and i have realized there is not enough time to know a lot of people, and our parents, sometimes, are the least probable people we wanted to get to know.

thanks for that reminder, shall i say, a 'mild' jolt.

we pray for your aunt's wellness, if not faster recovery.

there's another very important thing the book taught me:

"there's a very special name for things that we don't expect to happen, they just do. this is called hope."

all in due time, God will put things into place.

have a great day!

posted by kurama minamino @ 8:33 AM