Understanding through dialogue....

This is some of Matt's photography while in Nepal.  It is very, very good!  He has an eye.

I have wanted to understand some of the things he has experienced during this past year, the time he spent in these Asian countries of  India and Nepal because he is my son, and I love him.  I also want to get to know him on a deeper level and to understand where he is coming from these days in light of these new experiences.

To do this kind of thing, I have to talk to him...to dialogue, to ask questions, hard questions for me, but ones that need to be asked.  I want to hear him talk about the new thoughts and insights that have come into being for him.  His perception on spiritual matters and perhaps some new interpretation of Biblical issues that get him thinking in a different direction from me.  I think it is OK to do this....and I think as his mother, I must.  I want to be as much a part of this experience of his as I am able.  We all experience things quite differently throughout our lifetime, so I must allow him enough grace to be truthful  with me about these experiences.  It isn't easy watching various spiritual truths that I have attempted to instill in him, be reinterpreted by him to mean something new and different...but love allows one another leeway to find truth.  And truth has always been sought after....always...so I cannot fault him in this as he seeks out truth in new ways.

Perhaps I too, can learn some new things about life and truth and eternity and being a human being.  Perhaps I too, can be challenged.

I pray that it would be so.....and may God direct me in my thoughts....and Matt's, as we walk this road of life together.