“This will hurt me more than it does you”

I can still hear my dad saying, “This is going to hurt me more than it does you.” He was never angry but disappointed and calm as he would raise his belt, busting my hiny in disciplining me for breaking family and God’s rules. After the discipline I could see the troubling in his soul as his countenance marked by facial expressions and tears in his eyes, would drastically change. My dad would hug…