A Decade of Parenting

When we are experiencing impatience, we tend to concretize current reality: it’s like this and it’s going to be this way forever. I’m going to be in this job forever; I’m going to be changing diapers forever; I’m going to be struggling financially forever; I’m going to be alone forever; I’m going to be in this bed sick forever. If we’re in an uncom

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Our trials have taught us lessons that have made the rest of our lives all the more precious. The first lesson is as old as the hills: “This, too, shall pass.” Everything passes and changes and turns into something you would never have imagined, if you will only let it. I have learned how suffering only increases when I demand of life that “this sh

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We should not say, “Everything’s going to be fine,” or even, “You’re going to be okay.”

This is not true even on the most normal day. Every human being will die; practically every person will endure terrible suffering of one kind or another. These phrases can be appropriate when used by a parent comforting a small child, but they are not the languag

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