Parents - more thoughts

Parents instill so much in us even before we have the capacity to desire them to do so. But what about those parents who weren't there, or worse, who were instilling things into us before we had the capacity to realize that we didn't want them to do so. I know too many people personally to believe that either one of these scenarios is irreversible. It's the dichotomy of God's redeeming nature and man's ability to chose his own reactions to what life deals him. On the one hand you have a young man with only damaging images of a father left in his mind, and yet he choses to receive God as the perfect fulfillment of everything he lacked as a child. Then you have the young man who was raised at a table of plenty and choses to make tiny, embittering imperfections out of human parents. The former's success renders the latter's failure utterly inexcusable and shows us all that nothing is beyond God's ability to redeem and turn around a situation. I thank Him for living examples of
that in my life.