Affirmations:
I
am open and willing to learn from everything and everyone.
I
seek only to see the blessings of love in my life.
I
affirm with my attention all that I seek to be.
I
delight in the diversity and wonderful opportunities in my life.
Forever
Learning!
Three
Seventeen year olds came to visit for an overnight adventure last Friday!
(Our almost 17 yr
old first born granddaughter and two friends who we knew when there were in
preschool and early elementary school!)
They have asked
to come to our Lake home right before school starts next week for two days.
What a
privilege and gift for us!
What an amazing
delight to have them want to be with us.
What a joy to create
a safe haven for all to be.
How wonderful to
know our space of unconditional love is their choice.
I
opened free discussion and dialogue to find out what is really happening inside
and in their lives.
I found with college
bound gifted adolescents, there is little education about politics, history or
future.
Most relevant
information is found on internet with little guidance within the classroom.
They clearly had
strong opinions about what is happening to the younger generation.
They had some very
good ideas about how to manage technology and family relationships.
All of
this has caused me to wonder!
Why
are we not listening to and talking with our children?
Why have we
decided to do what we do with our time and money?
What do our
children really care about?
Is it possible we
have never really asked ourselves?
What
really matters?
What matters to
us?
What matters to
our partners, our children and others?
Perhaps no one is
asking, so we have never heard the answers?
If
we are all busy fixing and deciding and “making up” what we think is “right”,
maybe we are “wrong”.
If there is no
dialogue, how can anyone know?
If we have not
asked, how can we decide?
If no one is
informed, perhaps there is inadequate communication.
Now is
the time to ask what we ourselves think, feel and believe.
Now is the time to
ask those around us what they think, feel and believe.
Now is the time to
communicate, listen, accept and harmonize where we agree.
Now is the time to
forgive our judgments, listen and accept our differences.
Let us
listen and learn from one another.
Betty Lue