[Magdalen] Prayer pats, please

[cady soukup]

Prayer pats Molly,

It's so hard to be gentle with oneself.

May you be comforted in our gentle prayers for you and with you.

hugs too - Cady

On 1/25/16, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>> > >>
>>> >
>>>
>
>
>
> --
> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> land of Egypt.
> Leviticus 19:34
>