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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 656641" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>We had a discussion here on the site once, about whether hope and faith were cruel things.</p><p></p><p>I don't remember what the general consensus was. For myself, I lived on believing. That is why I remained so focused on the kids. I believed with all my heart that if I could just find the wrong thing, if I could just motivate them, if only I believed in them enough, they could do it. We all could do it, and this part would only be something we had come through.</p><p></p><p>At the President's State of the Union address this year, he quoted a mother whose family had come through hard economic times. Blow after blow, right? I am taking that for my interpretation of my family now. I am taking that as a way to see us, however this all turns out.</p><p></p><p>It is helpful to me.</p><p></p><p>"We are a strong family who has come through some very hard times."</p><p></p><p>It was something like that. The way the mother described her family, I mean.</p><p></p><p>We are a strong family. We have come through hard times.</p><p></p><p>I like to think about us that way. Maybe that will help you too, Copa. Because what is true, deep down where it matters, is that these are my people. </p><p></p><p>These are my people, and I love them and me and all of us together in some way I do not have words to describe. It just is.</p><p></p><p>It requires no justification. </p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 656641, member: 17461"] We had a discussion here on the site once, about whether hope and faith were cruel things. I don't remember what the general consensus was. For myself, I lived on believing. That is why I remained so focused on the kids. I believed with all my heart that if I could just find the wrong thing, if I could just motivate them, if only I believed in them enough, they could do it. We all could do it, and this part would only be something we had come through. At the President's State of the Union address this year, he quoted a mother whose family had come through hard economic times. Blow after blow, right? I am taking that for my interpretation of my family now. I am taking that as a way to see us, however this all turns out. It is helpful to me. "We are a strong family who has come through some very hard times." It was something like that. The way the mother described her family, I mean. We are a strong family. We have come through hard times. I like to think about us that way. Maybe that will help you too, Copa. Because what is true, deep down where it matters, is that these are my people. These are my people, and I love them and me and all of us together in some way I do not have words to describe. It just is. It requires no justification. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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