Becoming More Contemplative, part 4
I am not much of a New Year’s resolution maker, but one January, I desired a different focus and decided to call it a present of presence that I would gift to myself.
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Anne Lamott, one of my favorite authors, shares wisdom that was passed on to her by a dear priest friend. “The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.”
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Not only did my earlier faith practice purport a formulaic approach to parenting, there were formulas offered in other areas as well. Prayer was one such area.
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As I continued the pursuit of new and better ways to meet parenting challenges that were out of my league, two common and repeated themes emerged in the places I turned to for help. The first was that the parent must be the first to change.
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I was checking out at my dentist's office a few weeks back, and I came up on an interesting conversation. "Christmas is for men and for children." What followed was a long vent on how these two women had to do everything related to shopping, cooking, cleaning, wrapping, and coordinating the many aspects of their particular family Christmas with their adult children.
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