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How do you help a homeless and suicidal son?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 739021" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>The world that you have conveyed to us in your posts is so beautifully wrought. The peace you have found exudes from you. This is the greatest of gifts, I think. Not just having it and having had the capacity to create it. But to have the wisdom and the gratitude and the patience to savor it, and as much, to protect it.</p><p></p><p>I have some of this. But as yet I lack what it would take to fully own it, instead focusing on what eludes me, or not working through the transient and unimportant thoughts, feelings, and events that disrupt it.</p><p></p><p>The ability to live in this space, to cultivate it, and to protect it are the closest I believe we come to the Divine. If I look at your posts in this way, there is a clear position to take. Based upon what you write, you would be obligated to protect and to cultivate your blessings, what you have built and what you share.</p><p></p><p>It is a question of boundaries, but more than this, something deeper. Having nothing to do with anything self-serving or selfish.</p><p></p><p>It really has to do with generosity. A different kind of generosity and belief in the potential of your son. That the giving of yourself should not be a "pound of your flesh" but the belief that he has it in him to create his life in the way you have done so. For you, this was not written. You discerned this life, with thousands of critical choices.</p><p></p><p>Who can say our children will not do the same, if we stay out of their way?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 739021, member: 18958"] The world that you have conveyed to us in your posts is so beautifully wrought. The peace you have found exudes from you. This is the greatest of gifts, I think. Not just having it and having had the capacity to create it. But to have the wisdom and the gratitude and the patience to savor it, and as much, to protect it. I have some of this. But as yet I lack what it would take to fully own it, instead focusing on what eludes me, or not working through the transient and unimportant thoughts, feelings, and events that disrupt it. The ability to live in this space, to cultivate it, and to protect it are the closest I believe we come to the Divine. If I look at your posts in this way, there is a clear position to take. Based upon what you write, you would be obligated to protect and to cultivate your blessings, what you have built and what you share. It is a question of boundaries, but more than this, something deeper. Having nothing to do with anything self-serving or selfish. It really has to do with generosity. A different kind of generosity and belief in the potential of your son. That the giving of yourself should not be a "pound of your flesh" but the belief that he has it in him to create his life in the way you have done so. For you, this was not written. You discerned this life, with thousands of critical choices. Who can say our children will not do the same, if we stay out of their way? [/QUOTE]
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