[Magdalen] Prayer pats, please

[Susan Hagen]

I don't think you ever get done.  What surprises me is how old things
can spring out unexpectedly and still have a lot of energy in them.
Susan

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> > >>
>> >
>>



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