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Life Speaks to Us

7/30/2013

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When my oldest son was three, it was tough getting him to bed.  Eventually, one night every time I went to him , he got up again.  

It was almost 1:00 in the morning; my husband was working late waitering; I was alone and exhausted. My little son appeared again, this time not at the top of the steps calling, but in the living room.  I started to cry, begging him to go to sleep.  He looked at me perplexed.   He was three but in his innocent eyes all I could see was a controlling, unreasonable force.  And all I could see in me was a whining victim.

On the surface my problem was: "The Kid Won't Go to Sleep".  But my real problem was perception.  I wasn't a victim; there was no breach, gross injustice, unconscionable demands -no unfairness by the Gods or anyone else.  I needed to stop believing my thinking; it was wearing me out.  

Life talks to us in pictures.  Every experience is a series of pictures, a scene-by-scene depiction of our current point of view.  We get to live a physical reflection of the thoughts and feelings inside of us.
 
I was not the person I wanted to be with him - but that wasn't his fault.  It was up to me to decide who I wanted to be and to  release any thinking that could not support that choice.

I was never going to be who I wanted to be if I saw myself as the victim of anything.  

Who do you want to be?

Lots of Love,
Jennifer



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