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 You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on! Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now |
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Healing Our Memories - Henri
another thought on healing and forgiveness from Henri Nouwen
Healing Our Memories
Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. Sometimes we carry the memory in our bodies as a visible sign. But forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. When we forgive our parents for their divorce, our children for their lack of attention, our friends for their unfaithfulness in crisis, our doctors for their ill advice, we no longer have to experience ourselves as the victims of events we had no control over.
Forgiveness allows us to claim our own power and not let these events destroy us; it enables them to become events that deepen the wisdom of our hearts. Forgiveness indeed heals memories.
Healing Our Memories
Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. Sometimes we carry the memory in our bodies as a visible sign. But forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. When we forgive our parents for their divorce, our children for their lack of attention, our friends for their unfaithfulness in crisis, our doctors for their ill advice, we no longer have to experience ourselves as the victims of events we had no control over.
Forgiveness allows us to claim our own power and not let these events destroy us; it enables them to become events that deepen the wisdom of our hearts. Forgiveness indeed heals memories.
Amazingly Restorative
Yesterday ended a bit better than it seemed it would.
I got home from work and took a shower. It was one of those days where you just feel slimy from the interactions of the day. Showers are amazingly restorative.
I ate perogies for dinner. Dipped in sour cream. Perogies are also amazingly restorative.
I had a coffee date with my brother's girlfriend in a favorite neighborhood in the city. I laughed at the odd coincidences of events also occurring in the coffee shop that night. We shared hearts and laughed together, and promised to pray for each other. Coffee with her was also amazingly restorative.
I'm still waiting on getting a real night's sleep.
I set a goal this morning of getting through the (work) day at least without sobbing. I felt like it was shooting high, but I'm almost half-way through, and am starting to feel like it could be an achievable goal.
I got home from work and took a shower. It was one of those days where you just feel slimy from the interactions of the day. Showers are amazingly restorative.
I ate perogies for dinner. Dipped in sour cream. Perogies are also amazingly restorative.
I had a coffee date with my brother's girlfriend in a favorite neighborhood in the city. I laughed at the odd coincidences of events also occurring in the coffee shop that night. We shared hearts and laughed together, and promised to pray for each other. Coffee with her was also amazingly restorative.
I'm still waiting on getting a real night's sleep.
I set a goal this morning of getting through the (work) day at least without sobbing. I felt like it was shooting high, but I'm almost half-way through, and am starting to feel like it could be an achievable goal.
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