Stupid Mr. Worry
He asked me, “Mom, would God ever damn someone because I didn’t do something?” Wow. “No. That’s not how God works.” I wondered where he could have ever gotten an idea like that. We talked a little bit. In a few minutes it was clear to me what was happening. I told him how, when I was small, when my mom went out, I would have to watch her drive away until I couldn’t see her car anymore. If I didn’t do this, she would die. And I had already lost my dad, so I wasn’t about to allow something like that to happen if I could prevent it. My boy was having these thoughts, a “voice”, that made him think that he had to perform certain tasks in a certain way—or harm would come to someone. O.C.D.