My Spin For Kids campaign. Thank you.
It came to my attention that a few people read too much into the words. Some said that they could feel my frustration. It's probably the result of my poor writing skills. So please allow me to clarify this now:
1. I'm not frustrated. Period! I'm hurting with every OOOOWWWie, I'm worried about Liam's declining health (or what's left of it), I hate the planning we have to do (who wouldn't be???) - but I'm not frustrated. Frustration is when you try something or expect something and it doesn't happen (for example, I had a problem at work that we tried to solve for 4-5 months; everything we tried failed. That was frustrating). And that's not the case here. Even if they try something else to help her and are unsuccessful, I'm still not frustrated. Liam is such a complex case that getting frustrated with her would be too naive. Furthermore, I'm not the type of a guy who easily gets frustrated. Frustration is so unproductive that I simply (and naturally, somehow) move away from it quite easily.
Lastly, I didn't write it overnight. It sat in my draft folder for several days. I revised it several times and even showed parts of it to readers to get feedback before posting it. So if there was any frustration in me (which there wasn't), it surely wasn't there for the whole week that the writing was being worked on.
So there was no frustration. Case closed.
2. There's no linkage between my own disbelief in God and everything that's going on with Liam. Nothing, zero, nada. I even said it in the previous post: I held my current opinions BEFORE Liam came to this world. For a matter of fact, I feel a bit guilty. Not because I'm Jewish (and that's what Mom taught me...), but because I used Liam to express my thoughts about society and God. She really has nothing to do with it.
At the same time, since Liam got sick, God is being mentioned in my vicinity more than ever before. So it was important for me to explain to the "God-expressors" that maybe, just maybe, God is not that universal like they expect it to be. As I said previously, food for thought.
3. God that's in the heart: Under the question "What is God" I should have probably added another item. Many people believe in "SOMETHING". They may call it God or may call it something else. They may or may not practice religion; they may not talk about "it" everywhere; but they do have such concept in their heart. I have nothing against such concept. My only "problem" with God is when we, human beings, can't explain something, we use the easy-out. For example, Liam: why was she born like that? is there a medical explanation? why such a good person "deserve" all that suffering? (I'm using the word "deserve" very reluctantly...."deserve" implies that it was supposed to be different, which nobody knows); etc. Well, not everything MUST have an explanation. I think nature is such that we don't know enough about it yet. Maybe some day we will. Meanwhile (and thousands of years ago) people replaced I-don't-know with it-must-be-God. It caught on and stayed.
Bottom line:
I was extremely calm, non-frustrated, and clear minded when I wrote everything so far. If you read something into it, something I didn't say explicitly, you're welcome to bring it up and I'll clarify it for you.
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