[Magdalen] Prayer pats, please

[Georgia DuBose]

I should perhaps clarify that I don't (even remotely) think that what you
were referring to is "resentment." Memories can "swat you upside the head
like a white-oak compress" as a West Virginia friend of mine would have it.
My experience is that you keep backing off, over and over, from the
memories. The biggest help for me was three years of Jungian-oriented
therapy with licensed professional counselor Joyce Byrd. Other modalities
work for other people.

We are all pulling--and praying--for you.

Georgia+



On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> I should clarify:  I'm not schlepping resentments.  But every now and
> again, something brings out the appalling-ness of something from the past,
> and I'm filled with horrified compassion for my family and a renewed
> understanding of why my spiritual life is not exactly a bed of roses.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That stuff sucks. You have my prayers.
> >
> >> On Sunday, January 24, 2016, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Patapatapatapat
> >>
> >>> On 1/24/16 5:58 PM, Molly Wolf wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Something has happened to bring up the Old Family Horrors afresh, as
> >>> happens now and again, and with new emotional content (of course).
> >>>
> >>> I feel sometime that I see God not "through a glass darkly" but at the
> >>> bottom of a well of caustic sludge.  Each time I pray for drainage.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, y'all.  And may you who have been snowed upon get dug out
> safely.
> >>>
> >>> Molly
> >>>
> >>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
> no
> >>> other way. -- Mark Twain
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sibyl Smirl
> >> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> >> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >>
>