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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 707856" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>This is a very important thing to read, remember, study and internalize.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>God has this. If not God (for some), a Higher Power, than you or me or any other mom. We cannot, we just cannot, walk another person's path for them. They have to do it. </p><p></p><p>My prevailing image that I held on to very tightly during the awful times was this one: God has his arm around my son's shoulder and they are walking away from me together down a long long road. I can see them getting smaller and smaller in the distance as they walk. Even though my son didn't acknowledge or claim it, God's arm was already there for him, waiting and ready. I had to stay behind. I could not run around in front of them on the path...or run after them...saying wait! Wait! ....It was my job to stay back and watch them walk away together.</p><p></p><p>In time, as painful as that image was for a mom who loves her wayward and messed up son, it was an image that I still believe was and is right and true. We must get out of the way so our adult children can grow up and deal with real life on real life's terms. </p><p></p><p>But boy, it is the hardest thing in the world to live into.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 707856, member: 17542"] This is a very important thing to read, remember, study and internalize. God has this. If not God (for some), a Higher Power, than you or me or any other mom. We cannot, we just cannot, walk another person's path for them. They have to do it. My prevailing image that I held on to very tightly during the awful times was this one: God has his arm around my son's shoulder and they are walking away from me together down a long long road. I can see them getting smaller and smaller in the distance as they walk. Even though my son didn't acknowledge or claim it, God's arm was already there for him, waiting and ready. I had to stay behind. I could not run around in front of them on the path...or run after them...saying wait! Wait! ....It was my job to stay back and watch them walk away together. In time, as painful as that image was for a mom who loves her wayward and messed up son, it was an image that I still believe was and is right and true. We must get out of the way so our adult children can grow up and deal with real life on real life's terms. But boy, it is the hardest thing in the world to live into. [/QUOTE]
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