Living Without School: Getting here

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Getting here

How did I ever get here?

Where?

Here. My life.

It is not really always a matter of God's will but many times of actions and reactions.

You make choices and then have to live with them. There is always a pay back. Always a tomorrow.

How does this fit in with "Living Without School"?

Well, how do we as mothers share our mistakes and subsequent learning with our children?

Certainly not with ease. Like all of parenting, sharing our choices and the less than stellar results requires, necessitates, courage...forethought.......honesty...mindfulness.....prayer...time.

Tonight, in a debate, well, really, in a heated discussion with two of my sons, I said, loudly, that choices have consequences.

So, I share via words.

And via my life.

The kids see my life, the consequences of some of my actions. They see me just moving forward because sometimes the only way out is through. You gotta keep going.

Kids are wise. They see these things. They listen, sometimes. They learn sometimes.

Therefore, maybe, just maybe, history doesn't always repeat.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Leonie , thanks so much . dh & I are both struggling right now with the issue of some of our wrong parneting choices . We all make them don't we .
God always reminds me that what is importnat far more then knowing I am right is the knowing when I did something wrong , woning it , dealing with it and moving on . Hopefully our kids have also been paying attention by our actions etc.
I do hope in the end the legacy we have left will be good . I hope I have been His example here .
I look at so many people who have continued to now be thier absuive parent or married someone like thier abusive parent and I feel blessed and ever so gareful because it tends to be a majority and dh and I are the minority .
So many people never were supposed to be together in the first place !
you could pray for dh & I because we are at the fork in the road , the now from here to where stage lol I see a snow covered road with pine trees I like that road very very much ;-); 4:33 am
Leonie said...: Roxie, will def say a prayer for you and your dh...And you are right..knowing when we are wrong and working to fix that is very important!; 9:19 am

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O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee. If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: "She will crush your head," and, "Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world."

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Pierce, O most Sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for Thee, that it may yearn for Thee and faint for Thy courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with Thee.Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the bread of angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delight of taste; let my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, upon whom the angels desire to look, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst after Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the richness of the house of God.May it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, attain Thee, meditate upon Thee, speak of Thee, and do all things to the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, and with perseverance unto the end.May Thou alone be ever my hope, my entire assurance, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my fragrance, my sweet savor, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession and my treasure, in whom may my mind and my heart be fixed and firmly rooted immovably henceforth and for ever. Amen.