Middle Boy and I made a deal when he moved in with me.  Complete honesty to the best of our ability all of the time.  We will not provide less details in an attempt to spare the others feelings, but we also won't be purposefully rude with our honesty.

Today we asked each other a lot of questions which required honest answers.  It was a good visit.  We laughed a lot and we had a lot of pretty serious discussion.  We talked about disappointment and anger.  We talked about the walls we build up to protect ourselves from being hurt.  We talked about letting people inside those walls.

We talked about whether or not he will be home for Christmas.  We talked about our hopes and what we think is probably real.  We are still praying for what now seems like it might be a miracle.

We talked about God.  We talked about trust, forgiveness, and commitment.  All of these things have been topics about family in church in the past three weeks.  It has given us great discussions for our afternoon visits.

This morning at church it was mentioned that we should ask our kids what our number one priority is.  Honestly...I didn't have the courage to ask Middle Boy.  I will though.  During the visit on Wednesday.

Praises for honesty and relationship.

Prayers for wisdom and discernment.  Prayers for a miracle.