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from Richard Rohr's daily devotion today...good stuff for the journey
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 619247" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Very good COM, thank you.</p><p></p><p>It appears that many of us here on the PE side who have older difficult child's, have landed here on this strange journey with our adult kids to heal ourselves of childhood stuff or whatever brought on our enabling selves in the first place. If anyone can bring us to the "edge of your own resources" it would be our beloved children. The remarkable powerlessness one feels can bring you to your knees..................and keep you there indefinitely, with the very real feeling of " I cannot do this." </p><p></p><p>Many call that journey the Dark night of the soul. Where all the external facades fall away and we're left to look squarely at who we really are.............warts and all............yet in that looking, we can find ourselves, shed the extraneous masks and discover acceptance, which for me has offered that peace, compassion and forgiveness which allows my life to be filled with a real sense of internal comfort and peace.</p><p></p><p>My daughter provided the impetus to explore more deeply my own relationship with myself and the pockets of self cruelty and my own issues of control and fear............as my own healing in that progressed, my enabling of her stopped.........freeing us both to follow the song of the heart..............or not...............</p><p></p><p>Oddly in my detaching from everyone across the board, in my acceptance of what is, it's brought move LOVE, more empathy and more trust in to my relationships and my every day life. I am in the lovely realm of gratitude for most of the time..............</p><p></p><p>Thank you for sharing that COM, a very nice way to begin my day..........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 619247, member: 13542"] Very good COM, thank you. It appears that many of us here on the PE side who have older difficult child's, have landed here on this strange journey with our adult kids to heal ourselves of childhood stuff or whatever brought on our enabling selves in the first place. If anyone can bring us to the "edge of your own resources" it would be our beloved children. The remarkable powerlessness one feels can bring you to your knees..................and keep you there indefinitely, with the very real feeling of " I cannot do this." Many call that journey the Dark night of the soul. Where all the external facades fall away and we're left to look squarely at who we really are.............warts and all............yet in that looking, we can find ourselves, shed the extraneous masks and discover acceptance, which for me has offered that peace, compassion and forgiveness which allows my life to be filled with a real sense of internal comfort and peace. My daughter provided the impetus to explore more deeply my own relationship with myself and the pockets of self cruelty and my own issues of control and fear............as my own healing in that progressed, my enabling of her stopped.........freeing us both to follow the song of the heart..............or not............... Oddly in my detaching from everyone across the board, in my acceptance of what is, it's brought move LOVE, more empathy and more trust in to my relationships and my every day life. I am in the lovely realm of gratitude for most of the time.............. Thank you for sharing that COM, a very nice way to begin my day.......... [/QUOTE]
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