...children are not properties to own and rule over, but gifts to cherish and care for. We as parents have to learn to love our children. The awareness that children are simply guests in our homes can be a liberating awareness because many parents suffer from deep guilt feelings toward thier children, thinking that they are responsible for everything thier sons or daughters do. When they see their child living in ways they disapprove of, the parents may castigate themselves with the question "What did we do wrong? What should we have done to prevent this behavior?" and they may wonder where they failed. But children are not properties we can control as a puppeteer controls his puppets, or train as a lion tamer trains his lions. They are guests we have to respond to, not possessions we are responsible for.
From Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
AREOSMITH 2010
BEST CONCERT YET THAT IVE BEEN TOO...SORRY BEEGEES...(78)......WAITED FOR 36 YEARS TO SEE AREOSMITH....I WAS BLOWEN AWAY....WOOHOO
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