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"In my distress I called to
the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple
he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his
ears."
- Psalm 18:6
In recent years I have had the opportunity and curiosity
to drive by some of the houses I lived in as a kid. My
family moved a handful of times before my high school
years, so there are a few to visit. It is weird now to
look at the yards where I played. The garages I nearly
burned down. The curbs I jumped on my bike. And to
drive by the schools I attended. The outstanding
attribute to me is the size of these places. As I kid
I remember these places being so much larger. I guess
its just the perspective thing because I was so much
smaller.
All of that to say that the world through the eyes of
the child is pretty huge, even daunting.
A while ago my family was shopping at Kmart. And this
is not just a Kmart, but like one of those "super"
Kmarts. My daughter is 6. I am betting with the
aforementioned child-perspective this store must seem
like an entire city. Huge. Even daunting.
Nonetheless, every child goes through seasons of testing
their boundaries, pushing the limits just a little to
see what they can get by with (side trail - and if this
isn't true of all children please do not reply and tell
me so... suffice to say that every PERRY child goes
through seasons of testing. I need to believe I'm a
good parent - end side trail). After we had been at
the store for a while (we're frugal shoppers, you see)
the kids were letting down their guard a little bit at
a time, going a little further from home base (we, the
parents) and being a little more careless. And we at
home base were a little more focused, trying to make a
decision on whether to buy this phone or that one (we
didn't end up purchasing one... why are there so many
options?).
I was pretty engrossed in reading the packages of these
cordless phones, finding that obviously the greater the
frequency the greater the reception. But the quick
equation is this... more megahertz on your cordless,
more mega hurts on your wallet.
"DADDY!" A distant, but shrill voice. A disturbance
in the force. It instantly broke my trance. I
instinctively held my breath, my heart stopping for a
second. I knew that voice, though I'd never heard it
define panic so accurately.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008 
