My 10 year old son just offered me more healing than 15 years of therapy.
I was talking with him about healing and generational cycles of trauma, and this is what he said:
“Mama, it's like dominoes, you know? They just keep hitting eachother until one gets slightly out of line. The rest stay standing cause of one small move.
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Some think that academic study makes you arrogant. That can be true, I suppose, just as it can be true of everyone. But looking back now on 40 years in academia, I will say that I’ve learned my limitations precisely through academic study. Everything I've studied, everything I've thought of, everything I've done, reminds me of what I began sensing in those early years: The study of God is inexhaustible, for we are limited on all sides. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see f…