Friday, September 23, 2016

The Second Parable of the Baby Son

A certain Baby Son made a series of bad choices in his life.  One of which was to abandon his wife and children for a harlot. Baby Son became miserable, bitter, and exceedingly angry. You can see it in his countenance. Baby Son started blaming religion and the wife he left for all of his ills. Baby Son made it a point to try to turn his family against the wife he walked out on and does everything he can to make her look bad to them.  But Baby Son underestimated his sisters' intelligence as they do not fall for his cunning lies and manipulations.They can see right through him.  This makes him even more exceedingly angry and he does what any miserable, bitter, angry narcissist would do and cuts ties with them.

Unfortunately, Baby Son's father is easily manipulated by his baby son and continues to enable him. Whenever Baby Son gets angry at the wife he abandoned, he calls up daddy and, befitting his name, cries about her to his father and slanders her name.  All the while maintaining that he wants his family to stay out of his personal business yet he's the one who keeps dragging them into it-- when they don't want to be dragged into it. Baby Son created the mess by walking out on his family, yet is constantly complaining to his father if things don't go the way he wants them to.  Just like a little two-year-old pulling a temper tantrum. Yet Baby Son is a middle-aged man. Baby Son threatens to cut ties with the entire family but never keeps that promise.  The only time he calls home is when he gets angry with the wife he left--then he calls up daddy to cry about it and tries to turn his father, and family, against her.  Baby Son can't stand that he can't control his family and turn them against the wife he walked out on. Baby Son's family is not as naïve as he thought they were.

Baby Son's family is saddened by his continual bad choices.  They hate to see him so miserable, bitter, and angry all the time.  But Baby Son has his agency and must face the consequences of his bad choices.  Baby Son's sisters understand that enabling him doesn't help, but in fact hurts him. Baby Son's family continually hopes and prays for him to start making better choices and come back before it's too late. Life is too short to continually make bad choices.

A have hope.

That's my two cents.

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