Questions Seeking Answers

a short missive

red poppies near the abandoned railway track near my home

Relationships with hoomans are hard, aren’t they, reader? They can often feel like walking through fire whilst wearing highly flammable clothing and juggling axes, can’t they?

In particularly, family relationships present us with many the complexities and these can complicate our lives. That said, reader, love never means allowing others to mistreat us, not even maternal love necessitates taking cruelty and abuse.

Those who have a faith practise can and do turn toward the Divine and ask for a sign of some kind of sign.

Reader, I have questions.

1. How do we accept the fact that sometimes g-d’s voice might tell us something we didn’t want to hear, you know, that G-d’s plan might require and direct us to let go when we wanted to hang on?

2. How do we face the humiliation and cruelty that often comes with familial dynamics?

3. How do we have grace and forgiveness for ourselves?

4. How do we forgive those who hurt us very badly?

5. How do we discern and disentangle what is our burden to bear and discharge and what is not ours to do?

6. How do we let go?

7. How do we grieve graciously, for ourselves and those who remain closest to us?

8. How do we bear our burden and then discharge it?

9. How do we find shelter in the Divine and bathe in His steadfastness and mercy?

10. How do we resist the urge seek shelter in our grievances and sorrows?

11. How do we resist the urge to bathe in the hurt and pain and humiliation that rain down upon us?

Me and my mum as Pixar characters