parents: mine.
Reading up on Reactive Attachment Disorder at Chapters...
Me via text to both of them: Thanks for warmly and consistently interacting with me in my infancy!!
Obviously without knowing the other's response, they both replied within a minute:
Mom: My pleasure!
Dad: The pleasure was all mine!
They're keepers.
Human Needs Global Resources Covenant, 2009
As fellow travelers on this journey, we commit to this covenant before God. Lord, in Your mercy, hear these our prayers:
When confronted with scarcity, need, and inadequacy, may we be nourished by the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation. Abundance overflows from Your table, sustaining all who come in faith. Father, help us.
When monotony blurs our vision and dulls our senses, may we encounter others as Christ did, through intentional presence in daily life, submitting as clay to be formed into vessels filled with the Spirit. Christ, guide us.
When wounded by the fractured condition of Your people, may we be united by Your Lordship in faith, hope, and love; seeing, as through the facets of a diamond, the beautiful spectrum of Your light reflected onto Your holy Church joined in praise. Spirit, empower us.
When all Creation groans, afflicted by injustice and driven to despair, may the promise of redemption root us in the hope of Your Kingdom: "Behold, I am making all things new!"
Holy Trinity, send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve You with gladness and singleness of heart.
Amen.
3 comments:
that's awesome.
This is *great*. I consistently text similar things to Tammie, such as "My family therapy prof says any healthy family is thrown into absolute chaos when its children reach adolescence. We must be really healthy!"
We're such nerds. And so are our parents. I love it.
Nice.
So many ways to screw up kids... I'm some of them are so enjoyable to prevent.
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