Follow Your Gut
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Generations of elementary school children have read The Boxcar Children series, but I imagine that there are only a few that reacted to them in the same way I did.
I did not begin to hope that a wealthy relative would save my siblings and I from an orphanage. Instead, I began to plan for how I would handle it if my parents died.
As the oldest child in my family, I imagined I would shepherd my younger siblings through the difficult time. I knew (in the hubris of youth) that I could provide for them.
This has been on my mind over the last several years as the health of my mom's parents has been declining. Nathan and I have discussed what we would do when they pass. I'm as ready as I can be, so when my grandpa was hospitalized several weeks ago I wasn't upset. Instead, I felt a strong and inexplicable urge to go to Utah for a visit.
I say inexplicable because I had no reason to say why this hospitalization was different than any other in recent years. But it was.
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Nathan was supportive, so we packed our family up in our mini van and drove to Utah. As we traveled I learned that my grandma is also doing poorly.
There was the explanation for this gut feeling.
We needed to see both of them.
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While there will likely be more to share from this experience, for now I want to simply state how important it is to follow your gut feeling.
There might not be a logical reason for your feeling, but you will rarely regret following your intuition.
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