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couple things:

I don’t think you know what it’s like to lose a child and depths of despair you go through and they ways, anything, anything you can do to remember them

Doesn’t seem like a good sales pitch to bag on a parent who lost their child.

Besides, if Jesus can hang out with all sorts of people maybe we can show a little compassion and restraint in personalizing our remarks...

Let me give a “for instance” and true story.

I have a friend of over 40 years. Been a lesbian ever since I can remember.

Went to visit my Mom and hadn’t seen this friend in about 5 years. Didn’t recognize her either when she came up and squeezed me like a long lost son.

I only thought “Man, my Mom has always had crazies in her life”.

We all went to dinner and after a while I guess she realized I didn’t recognize her and she made an exclamation about something only she and our family would know and I blurted her name in question manner.

She jumped for joy and told me one night she was on an angry booze bender and when she awoke the next morning found herself drifting to a church where she made her way in and accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.

She never felt better in that moment.

Went cold turkey on cigarettes and booze that day and suddenly wondered why she had spent nearly 50 years in anger....at what?

She dates men and zero desire for her old life and can’t even envision being angry at nothing.

Oh, she lost 50 something pounds which is why I didn’t recognize her at first and she almost looked datable.

So, we don’t know where our kindness leads and what doors it can open but, we do know how many doors of possibilities are shut by our anger and condemnation.