Letter Of the week is O

I wasn't sure where to go with my letter O week, so I googled words starting with O, and realized some great ones exist. It hasn't made it easier for me to pick, but I thought I would share them with you and hope that something comes to me. Omnipotent, oven, obtuse, optimistic, okra, obey, ostentatious, oxymoron. You see, O is a valuable letter! It's outstanding! I thought about talking about obedience and how I am not a fan, because I was raised by someone who didn't always make good choices for me who said I had to "obey" her. So, that is a tough one for me. I took it out of my wedding vows, I never tell Liam to "obey" me, but I do tell him he has to listen to me and occasionally, "just do it because I said so, sheesh." I thought about that voice that got into the upper registers of the heavens just saying HONOR AND OBEY, meanwhile I was wearing prairie clothes and marching though New York on cold nights waiting for broken cameras to show us signs from above. Then I thought, my mom wasn't the only one out there making those choices for their families, how many other kids grew into obedience fearing adults? I have to say though, I am glad that knowing things were not right caused me to ask questions and not just accept things on faith. Some faith is good and necessary, but there is room for science, for observation and questions. I could have gone the opposite direction, the direction it seemed like I should go, and just never look up, never see how the rest of the world was, but then I wouldn't have been me. I went through a phase of not wanting dresses or skirts, and I still hate conforming to what people in a certain demographic think is right. I hired a cool hippie guy with spacers in his ears to be a teacher, because who says guys with big earrings can't be awesome teachers, and I was right. I have shown more than a little cleavage in my day because the I was raised with the two fingers from the neck is too revealing. Except in cases of extremism I try to be tolerant of everyone, and maybe then I should be too, because I guess you never know how someone was raised. I am not saying kids should be given carte blanche to act like jerks and run their mouths, but give them a reason to listen, don't just quote the catechism or some other far reaching doctrine. Obedience, to me is not a necessary vocabulary word. Respect me because I am fair, not because we share DNA. Honor me because I am honorable, not because I carried you for 9 months. "Obey me" because I am only trying to keep you safe, and because we love each other.
Look at that, I guess I went with obedience after all!!!