To San Diego - Whatever it takes

So what is new?  I have not really been a true blogger, both for lack of effort, and for lack of a purpose to my blog.  Do I write for myself, my purposes and emotions,  or do I write for others amusement, information and for them as an audience . My confusion over that issue has been the major thing preventing me from writing.  It seems that it needs to be one approach or the other and not both. Do I provide a clear window to my heart and soul and the issues of my life, or do put a layer of film or glaze so that it is hidden to one degree or another?  Do I express the doubts, the fears, the struggles of our lives? Do I let out the anger and resentment, or do I make an attempt at filtering it all so that it is palatable, socially and emotionally acceptable?  The fact is that Daniel, my third eldest son, the son named after me, has informed us that he is following through on his long-held desire to be in the sun and surf of San Diego and AWAY from his family, from his church and from those that know and love him. Despite all the exhortations and pleas to the contrary, he has concluded that this move needs to be done because he wants to, and because we don’t want him to.  He has been asked to come up with a single biblical principle or directive that leads him to believe that it is God that wants him to go. He has not come up with a single one.  In the process, he has also lied to us numerous times about things he has done in the last few months.  Daniel fell and made some decisions that will severely and has already affected the rest of his life.  Those decisions, the implications of his having made them, and the fear of God and the deceitfulness of his own heart does not seem to be there at all.  The continuing and overriding determinative principle is solely his desire to be in San Diego and the hope he has that he will find something he is missing here.