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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 648924" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>In your own heart, you need to know too that the people judging you literally have no clue about what this experience you are battling your way through with your child involves. You have faced and forgiven harsher truths about this child that you love than the parent of a more typical child can even imagine. </p><p></p><p>Even so, again and again, you have chosen to respond with love, courage, and faith in your child.</p><p></p><p>And again and again, in big things and in meaningless little things, the child betrayed both you and your faith in him.</p><p></p><p>I don't know why we can't reach them, why it is that we cannot change what they see or how they feel. I do know that, for each of us, there finally comes a time when we no longer believe we can make a difference for them. There are those who say we finally stop believing in our superhuman power to change things, or to control things. I say we did not set out to be superhuman or controlling. </p><p></p><p>We set out to love a child. </p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 648924, member: 17461"] In your own heart, you need to know too that the people judging you literally have no clue about what this experience you are battling your way through with your child involves. You have faced and forgiven harsher truths about this child that you love than the parent of a more typical child can even imagine. Even so, again and again, you have chosen to respond with love, courage, and faith in your child. And again and again, in big things and in meaningless little things, the child betrayed both you and your faith in him. I don't know why we can't reach them, why it is that we cannot change what they see or how they feel. I do know that, for each of us, there finally comes a time when we no longer believe we can make a difference for them. There are those who say we finally stop believing in our superhuman power to change things, or to control things. I say we did not set out to be superhuman or controlling. We set out to love a child. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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