[Magdalen] Prayer pats, please

[Jay Weigel]

Stuff sometimes comes back to haunt you. It just does. I don't know why I'm
not done dealing with some of mine either. Back at it from a different
angle, I guess.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >>
> >
>