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I came across this website tonight and found it very true, while I am not quite ready to deal with these issues as yet I thought the following words describe what I seem to try and tackle all the time.
Rossocomedy states on the Daily Strength Webiste "Good grief Charlie Brown! Punishment of children with beatings and humiliation like this do more than inflict pain on the body, they strip away self esteem, and inflict a lifetime sentence of damage to the victim"I never want to be classed as a victim but I would so agree with the stripping away of self esteem, boy, oh boy, oh boy, I so have issues with self esteem. I can totally understand why now after reading this article.
http://www.dailystrength.org/health_blogs/cyndi/article/long-term-effects-of-physical-abuse-and-severe-corporal-punishment
It will be very interesting to see what Christianity has to say about this subject, another time perhaps.
Well, we know what Jesus said about welcoming the children. And we know what he said about how we treat "the least of these."
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ReplyDeleteThank you Galen, your such an inspiration. This is from your posting today, hope you do not mind me including it here. it says this, "So how do we break the grip the past has on us? Gently. By noticing when we are lost in the past, whether in pleasant reverie or painful remorse. By reminding ourselves that our past is a story we tell ourselves, a story we can change or simply drop. By bringing our attention back to the present. Again and again. By practicing until it becomes a habit. By practicing, as Pema Chodron says, “like our hair was on fire.”
ReplyDeleteGood old days or bad old days are not today days. So if you do visit your stories of the past, remember to come home soon". How true is this.