excerpt from the book im reading... (dont sue me for copyright pls!)

"I do not care what you do and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay.

Of course, you will always hope that they do not hurt themselves. And if they do, you will be right there tot help them, heal them, allow them to feel safe again, to be happy again, to go and play again another day. But whether they choose hide and seek or pretend will not matter to you the next day, either.

You will tell them, of couse, which games are dangerous to play. But you cannot stop your children from doing dangerous things. Not always. Not forever. Not in every moment from now until death. It is the wise parent who knows this. Yet the parent never stops caring about the outcome. It is this dichotomy - not caring deeply about the process, but caring deeply about the result - that comes close to describing the dichotomy of God."

conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch.

interesting.