Our well-meaning youth pastor took our college-bound son out to lunch. While it was thoughtful of him to reach out to my senior, towards the end, he made a comment that said, in effect, “You will cross the line and do terrible things in college...
I remember it like it was yesterday – junior year. Senior year. The stress about money, the time spent researching colleges, visiting colleges, applying to colleges. Well, I didn’t visit that many, but I had friends who went all over the country....
It was a Tuesday night, the eve of my twin senior sons’ last full day of high school. To mark the day and to help me grieve it, I wanted to make it significant and momentous. I would make their lunches as I usually did, but oh, what a lunch it...