cry for a reason

“I remember,” writes Nieves, “that when my sister María Isabel was very young, she cried a lot—very often, and for no good reason. Something didn’t go her way, and the crying was out of all proportion. Somebody had to shake her to get her to stop. One of those times, some of us siblings were there, and she started crying, without rhyme or reason. My father slapped her. María Isabel was very startled—and I think all the rest of us were, too. She stopped, and started crying again, in a different way. My father told her that over that she could cry; but over nothing, no. From then on, the outbursts of crying ceased. That day my father was especially affectionate with her. I remember that he held her hand for a good while.” The episode was so exceptional that all the children remember it, and they all now joke about it—including its little protagonist, who today has a PhD from the Sorbonne.

Thats the father, to cane, and to be affectionate. All our of love. Like our fathet God who at times, have to discipline his children so that we can grow up.