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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 646025" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>I love the way we think about things here, Hope. We are deeply engrossed in healing ourselves and in loving our children through it and I love it that we've come together, here.</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It has been such a long time for me, now. </p><p></p><p>I don't know for sure, but I think this level of thinking is a kind of natural deepening that comes with maturity. I guess I think that, as women, so much of our lives is not in our control. We undergo the rapid rush of hormones, we are pregnant, we fall in love with our babies and they grow away from us.</p><p></p><p>I think it is more difficult to be a woman, for those reasons.</p><p></p><p>For those of us here on the site, those difficult challenges are compounded ten thousandfold. With our children in such pain, there is no reflection out there to validate us.</p><p></p><p>Just the opposite. </p><p></p><p>To me, it seems that the challenge, the ultimate endpoint of it, maybe, is to become so much more "there" that we find that we have navigated through the pitfalls of hatred and ~ and madness, even. </p><p></p><p>And sometimes, when things are so bad, I can't help but surrender to it, surrender to the pain of it and hope with all my heart there is a purpose here, though I cannot see it.</p><p></p><p>I read once that at the touch of Eternity, we will know.</p><p></p><p>That's beautiful, isn't it.</p><p></p><p>But you know what I love about this site?</p><p></p><p>Though we are so honest with one another ~ touchy or offended or compassionate ~ we laugh at ourselves and each other and sometimes even at our kids, and that makes it all somehow okay.</p><p></p><p>Somehow okay, and so...we can face the next day.</p><p></p><p>*</p><p></p><p>I am so happy we all are right here, and I think we are doing impossible things, and doing them gracefully and very well.</p><p></p><p>It is very hard.</p><p></p><p>But we are here together, and that makes all the difference.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 646025, member: 17461"] :O) I love the way we think about things here, Hope. We are deeply engrossed in healing ourselves and in loving our children through it and I love it that we've come together, here. *** It has been such a long time for me, now. I don't know for sure, but I think this level of thinking is a kind of natural deepening that comes with maturity. I guess I think that, as women, so much of our lives is not in our control. We undergo the rapid rush of hormones, we are pregnant, we fall in love with our babies and they grow away from us. I think it is more difficult to be a woman, for those reasons. For those of us here on the site, those difficult challenges are compounded ten thousandfold. With our children in such pain, there is no reflection out there to validate us. Just the opposite. To me, it seems that the challenge, the ultimate endpoint of it, maybe, is to become so much more "there" that we find that we have navigated through the pitfalls of hatred and ~ and madness, even. And sometimes, when things are so bad, I can't help but surrender to it, surrender to the pain of it and hope with all my heart there is a purpose here, though I cannot see it. I read once that at the touch of Eternity, we will know. That's beautiful, isn't it. But you know what I love about this site? Though we are so honest with one another ~ touchy or offended or compassionate ~ we laugh at ourselves and each other and sometimes even at our kids, and that makes it all somehow okay. Somehow okay, and so...we can face the next day. * I am so happy we all are right here, and I think we are doing impossible things, and doing them gracefully and very well. It is very hard. But we are here together, and that makes all the difference. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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