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Stupid Mr. Worry

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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.