Boundaries and Interviews and Boundaries

 So, here I am, in Dauphin, thankful that I will never again have to endure the countless interviews that I had in Winnipeg from 2014- 2022. Wow! That was a challenge.

So, I hear my son Jordan is going to have an interview to see how his problem of 'blindness' can be addressed to living conditions and new career opportunities. Now, thank you, good Lord, that Liam, his son, my grandson, is always available for him to read his text messages with his current eyesight. 

The construction sites are becoming a very dangerous place for a man whose eyesight is failing so the interview to see how things will be changed to give him his life back is a report I am really looking forward to receiving.

My oldest son, Scott, has a wonderful job in the field of 'electricians' and the glasses he is always needing are constantly changing.

Now, I don't know if my middle son, Tyler, is still doing electrical work or if his back has been injured beyond repair. I am very sure that a new career objective is going to be talked, and talked and talked about until solutions are forthcoming.

Now, I am looking forward to seeing the new running shoes that Liam received recently. He is one of those kids who usually only gets new running shoes when he outgrows his, through a sudden growth spurt. He is such an emotionally sensitive child, I do hope his environment is conducive to carefully monitored 'giving' circumstances. One time, he gave his runners away because someone presented a child as needing his only pair of running shoes and that's when I knew he needed to understand that sharing is only necessary when you have more than one of something. "Giving children" need to be empowered to make sensible decisions so they're not left poor from giving. I know its seems hard to find such a child in this day and age but... a few children are still like that. 

Liam's father Jordan was often too much like that as well and found himself trying to support people who weren't, in any way, related to him. I wanted to offer to buy him new running shoes when he came here to do some construction fix- ups. Moms never know how to tell grown sons to get new running shoes, or clothing. We always think their wives will be right on top of that. 

I think he may have had a few difficulties with 'boundaries.' I used to have terrible problems with boundaries until I got a few solid people in my life who told me I should be much more careful in whom I gave rides in my vehicle to and whom I invited for dinner and whom I invited to Bible study. 

'Boundaries' is one of my favourite books. I read it years before Riverwood Church brought it into the Bible study curriculum available for leaders... such a great learning tool. I think they brought in some of those books right after one of those leadership conferences I went to there.