Be careful: Ya never know where another human being is going!

When my daughter was 12 years old, she began attending church. Had she requested it, I would have woken her but she set her alarm and got herself up and on her way. This despite having been brought up in a non-religious household. We had often talked about ethics and moral codes but the subjects were never confined within religious thought.

I admired her for forming her own path. And when she wanted to attend a summer church camp I paid for it.

As she grew older, I was candid in my own lack of organized religious belief but I bought her books that supported her burgeoning beliefs.

Together we voluneteered at various soup kitchens and we actively cultivated friends of other cultures and races. I thought she was as liberal as I.

Ha! She went off to college, met a man from a conservative, religous family who, it developed, are also politically conservative.

Today, at age 43, she is as conservative as they.