is where the parenting journey becomes enlivened. Cherishing every
moment of our children’s existence, we enjoy each experience,
especially those that seem ordinary. We stop wasting time and energy on
endeavors that ultimately evoke no joy. We cease squandering our
existence on impersonal material things, realizing that what matters is a
connection to ourselves and the relationships in our life.
It’s no easy matter to accept that, ultimately, this journey of life is
only ours to call our own. We fear we’ll feel isolated and lonely if we
really claim our uniqueness. This is because, to the degree we are
strangers to ourselves, we feel ill-equipped to nourish our own self.
Little do we realize that it’s only through the experience of our unique
path that we can experience both personal fulfillment and oneness with
all beings.
Our children can lead us into authenticity because they instinctively
know how to be. They intuitively know how to live within their body and
respond to their spirit. They are fully aware of the need to meet reality as
it presents itself and are able to respond in a manner that we adults often
aren’t. This is why it’s from our children that we can learn how to really
live.
Basically, we are afraid to surrender to life as is, and this fear keeps us
in reaction mode. Yet surrendering to our children’s spirit is imperative
if we are to raise them with an ear to their true being. This we do by
diving beneath our reactions, intellectualizing, and even know-how,
simply meeting our children as they are, being to being.
michael s
(Michael S)
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