I can still feel how that idea struck me at age sixteen. It was my first look across the massive divide between being a child and being a parent. In that conversation, Mrs. Annie Aagaard made me try to peer all the way from the land of Moab into the land of Gilead. What I saw seemed terrifying and absolutely unknown. As I have subsequently learned, parents and children are lent to one another.
Time is of the essence.
This wise, terse message echoes through the years.