tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post9191282427172275386..comments2023-12-25T02:46:52.723-04:00Comments on Awareness: summoning up an honest reflection.awarenesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-44520671892226347652010-03-07T18:59:13.815-04:002010-03-07T18:59:13.815-04:00Jen... God is a good teacher and never coddles. :)...Jen... God is a good teacher and never coddles. :) We could learn much from his parenting skills! <br />I read recently that we run away from change....because it is what it is -- scary. However, grace is felt during changes and transitions. Silly us, this means we often run away from grace too.awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-63425765392994798072010-03-07T18:57:04.828-04:002010-03-07T18:57:04.828-04:00David... good question! I hadn't thought of i...David... good question! I hadn't thought of it. Now, that you bring it up? What a wise man that Father to let his loved one go off to learn on his own. It must've broken his heart. I assume he knew his son very well.... that there was a good chance that he would mess up. that takes courage to stand back to allow it to happen. Rather than saving him from hard life lessons by swooping in (like so many parents do now) and taking over, he let him go.awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-83575075653131075912010-03-07T18:53:38.249-04:002010-03-07T18:53:38.249-04:00Karyne... I am reading Nouwen's book, HOME, Fu...Karyne... I am reading Nouwen's book, HOME, Further Reflections on the Prodigal Son based on Rembrandt's painting. :) It is what has generated this post and the one I wrote today about the hole in the fence. :) I knew you'd pick up on that!! <br /><br />The book is a hands on process.... each chapter, you're asked to journal your thoughts on his own thoughts about the parable and the painting etc. I thought it would be a good exercise to do for Lent.awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-45542797683059010252010-03-07T18:51:13.902-04:002010-03-07T18:51:13.902-04:00RB... Thank you for sharing your thoughts here. I...RB... Thank you for sharing your thoughts here. I've read them a few times, and I guess where I always end up is wondering if I tried to handle the whole forgiveness thing like you do, if I would continue to still feel connected to the person who has been mean to me. As much as I too am a control freak, I think I have to disconnect from the person emotionally or at least shift my own feelings. Though I know I have no real control over how another person acts, reacts etc, I wonder if I could feel a sense of resolution if I focused solely on myself. <br />I don't think you sound hard hearted. I think you sound much more pragmatic than I am. No right or wrong here. It comes down to healing and wholeness of oneself when it comes to the pain felt when wrongdoing happens. <br /><br />thank you for a weekend of chewing it over..... :)awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-73514670046163884342010-03-06T20:05:56.985-04:002010-03-06T20:05:56.985-04:00Grace has new meaning to me.
As I've learned ...Grace has new meaning to me. <br />As I've learned more about shame, and how to let go of that, I've learned more about grace, and how to accept it. <br /><br />But...it seems to be one of those lessons that I have to re-learn over and over again. Like, every day when I wake up. :sigh:<br /><br />Maybe God designed it that way.<br />Because if I could learn these huge lessons once and be done with it, I'd never go to Him again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-24265907963290165342010-03-06T19:45:45.356-04:002010-03-06T19:45:45.356-04:00Another mystery to me is the father, he has enough...Another mystery to me is the father, he has enough money and servants that he could have sent them out to search for his son. He watched each day at the window, why did he not send his people out to look for him?<br />The son had to reach a place where he could choose to turn around.J Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11984863931965766597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-25641723587654168242010-03-06T12:56:01.285-04:002010-03-06T12:56:01.285-04:00One of my fav. paintings...captures, I feel, the t...One of my fav. paintings...captures, I feel, the true essence of our heart's cry! Have you read Henri Nouwen's book on this painting?swilekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899156199746163443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-3991510675057025542010-03-06T11:22:40.152-04:002010-03-06T11:22:40.152-04:00I have written about forgiveness before and it was...I have written about forgiveness before and it was interesting that people had very different ideas about it and its importance.<br /><br />It is not something that is important for me. Someone once did something incredibly awful to me and yet I have never felt any need to forgive them. My recovery was all about me coming to terms with it and I can't see that anything from them would have helped or hindered. I find the whole concept very difficult to come to terms with and I just think it is not part of my psyche. I am a control freak, so to have to rely on someone else, for forgiveness or to forgive them, just does not fit with the way I feel about life. It leaves me at someone else's mercy and I do not want that.<br /><br />I forgive myself very easily these days. If something is done then it is done. The trick is to think a bit more carefully on the next occasion. Beating myself up does nobody any favours, least of all myself.<br /><br />I probably sound hard-hearted but I don't think I am. It's just that we are all different.<br /><br />Certainly if someone I love does something to upset me, I yell at them for a few mins or sob privately and then I put it behind me. I don't expect to have to involve THEM in me moving on, I do it by myself.Reluctant Bloggernoreply@blogger.com