Comments on: Tyler http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/ tastes like chicken. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:06:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: melanie-pearl http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-174 melanie-pearl Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:52:29 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-174 "it makes me sad for him" i've said those same words about my own dad several times in the last year. glad to know there's one more person out there who can relate. it does make me wonder what Chloe will someday say about me (since we all have issues). guess i'll hope God works in her life despite me...kinda like my own Dad did with me. “it makes me sad for him”

i’ve said those same words about my own dad several times in the last year. glad to know there’s one more person out there who can relate.

it does make me wonder what Chloe will someday say about me (since we all have issues).

guess i’ll hope God works in her life despite me…kinda like my own Dad did with me.

]]> By: matches http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-173 matches Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:42 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-173 Thanks for all the comments. Dad is a great man with a history of struggles. I love him dearly. To call him accomplished is true. I'm proud of him, more than anything, for surviving. Those who know the depressive disorders intimately know how debilitating it can be. He has been diagnosed with all kinds of things, but his strongest diagnosis, is that he is a man who chose to laugh when everything said he should cry. Thanks for all the comments. Dad is a great man with a history of struggles. I love him dearly. To call him accomplished is true. I’m proud of him, more than anything, for surviving. Those who know the depressive disorders intimately know how debilitating it can be.

He has been diagnosed with all kinds of things, but his strongest diagnosis, is that he is a man who chose to laugh when everything said he should cry.

]]> By: teason http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-172 teason Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:31:56 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-172 man, this post is just so great. to hell with the happiness cravers who want to live vicariously through their perceptions of others. this is honest and hard and helpful (i swear i wasn't trying for 3 h words) and we can all relate to it--your experience and writing put it into words the best. i want to say more, but it would take more words and...i'm already past the whole diminishing returns thing. man, this post is just so great. to hell with the happiness cravers who want to live vicariously through their perceptions of others. this is honest and hard and helpful (i swear i wasn’t trying for 3 h words) and we can all relate to it–your experience and writing put it into words the best. i want to say more, but it would take more words and…i’m already past the whole diminishing returns thing.

]]> By: mamajenny http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-171 mamajenny Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:02:11 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-171 I sometimes feel deeply hurt that I don't get the chance to know my dad as an adult... oh, the things I'd love to have him walk through with me, the questions I'd like to ask. But this reminded me that even if he had lived, that might not have happened, and that can bring a deeper sadness. I'm sorry for the hurt you've had to feel, and I am glad that Tyler redeemed some of it for you. And I'm glad that Jack isn't going to have the same hurt in his relationship with you. I sometimes feel deeply hurt that I don’t get the chance to know my dad as an adult… oh, the things I’d love to have him walk through with me, the questions I’d like to ask. But this reminded me that even if he had lived, that might not have happened, and that can bring a deeper sadness. I’m sorry for the hurt you’ve had to feel, and I am glad that Tyler redeemed some of it for you. And I’m glad that Jack isn’t going to have the same hurt in his relationship with you.

]]> By: Freestyle Road Trip http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-169 Freestyle Road Trip Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:29:14 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-169 I hear you, Matt. I feel some of that too. I don't want my boys to be blogging about the same thing in 20 or 30 years. My dad is retiring next Sunday from 40+ years of preaching in the Nazarene church. And I am hopeful. Some of the changing I have done in 2007 has been scary for him and my mom, but he is asking questions sometimes that seem to say to me that his doctrinal boundaries are cracking. Maybe I can get to know him in a different way and do some different kind of talking with him. I am hopeful. Hang in there, buddy. I hear you, Matt. I feel some of that too. I don’t want my boys to be blogging about the same thing in 20 or 30 years. My dad is retiring next Sunday from 40+ years of preaching in the Nazarene church. And I am hopeful. Some of the changing I have done in 2007 has been scary for him and my mom, but he is asking questions sometimes that seem to say to me that his doctrinal boundaries are cracking. Maybe I can get to know him in a different way and do some different kind of talking with him. I am hopeful. Hang in there, buddy.

]]> By: karmenl http://matches.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tylar/#comment-167 karmenl Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:36:38 +0000 http://matches.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-167 This makes me sad, too. I can relate a little. Your Dad sounds really accomplished. This makes me sad, too. I can relate a little.
Your Dad sounds really accomplished.

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