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Talking with parents can be interesting. As you mature you’ll discover that while they are always teaching there are moments when children teach too. As a result I have come to this resolve.



There’s a difference and a line between faith and optimism and “pretending” everything is okay when it’s not. With faith you can be proactive, having a resolve that you can work problems out and come to a peaceable solution or at least an outcome. You don’t have to deny that there is a problem. That’s why you pray with faith to work it out. “Pretending” everything is okay does not give you space to admit the obvious and thus things may get worse with you holding on to the reigns in an immobile position with no anchor to dock.  It’s a fine-line I know but as children we learn early on what can be lost to “pretending” sometimes parents forget that. But it's the difference that today's generation has quickly come to understand much to their heartache.
The truth on why we address issues while yet in faith and optimism.

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