Tag: forgiving myself
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Different
Fathers day is hard for many people. I mean, right? Parenting is a learned skill. Early modeling. It’s mostly knee-jerk stuff. You know, it’s like your reflexes. Before you know it and almost without your permission…you’ve parented just like you were parented. And that can either be really good, or really tragic. That’s why it’s […]
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Woooord. Pastor Mike!
“Most of us spend so much time hating things about ourselves that we don’t realize we’re crippling our ability to love others. There’s no way you can figure out how to love somebody else well in a relationship if you have not first figured out how to love yourself. ” ~pastor Michael Todd I definitely had […]
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Forgiving myself 🌻
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive,” C.S. Lewis wrote. ” I think Peter would have agreed. He knew pontificating about forgiveness was a whole lot easier than practicing it. “It’s the doing that gets tough. “But it’s the doing that should characterize the child of God. To return […]
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Bulldozerish
Q and I tried to go out for coffee this morning . He wanted to push me in my manual chair, for the exercise:bad idea💡. It was approximately 3000° F! We couldn’t find a way to get across 99W to the coffee place `cuz of construction. Furthermore, Q was feeling uncomfortable and socially awkward (I […]
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Relapse part 4: self-forgiveness
Self forgiveness. It’s a lot harder than forgiving one’s own perpetrators, don’t you think? Forgiving myself Has come down to a bald choice for me. I have all the power. I can refuse myself forgiveness. Or not. It seems like it should be easier than it is Because I am not directly to blame… because I […]
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Guilt: parenting prodigals
Hezekiah (good king) vs Manassah (creep) My closely related offender (raging addicted pedophile) vs me (following Jesus, healed, becoming healthy) My children (some are here, some are gone 💔) People have choices No matter where they are
reboot my ❤ 