In Cases of Stubborn Attachment

I’m sure you’ve seen movies where someone has to yell at a beloved animal friend to make it leave for its own good. Sometimes it is necessary to do this with other human beings who have become too attached to us and are stuck in imagination about the relationship.  If they are allowed to remain so emotionally attached they will never get unstuck, they will never grow.

So… after many suggestions, conversations and exhortations about the need for them to expand their horizons, if the resistance to doing so is so great that they are unable to move forward, we take a deep breath, make our faces look ugly and do it. We Act.  Hearts breaking, we put on a great show and shout, “shoo!!!” gesticulating wildly at them. We force them out of their self imposed prisons -  we force them to fly. The heart aches, but there it is, the bare naked truth; it is time for change. The love for these dear ones is not gone from the heart, if anything it is greater than ever. “I wish you all the best." you think. and pray for their safety and well being day and night. And you grin and bear what comes, donning your new masks every time you see them again. Some spit on you, some play monstrous head games, some try to kill you, or destroy you however they can. “One day”, you pray, “one day they will understand.” Is that so? I remind myself.

May you hear with ears and heart that can hear and may you BE Blessed and Blessed and Blessed. Amen, Amen and Amen!
L.

Gethsemene

Matthew 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them (the disciples) unto a place called Gethsemane and saith unto the disciples, "Sit ye here while I go and pray yonder." 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here and watch with me."  39 And he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying, "Oh my Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt." 40 And he cometh unto the disciples and findeth them asleep and saith unto Peter, "What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak." 42 He went away again the second time and prayed saying, "O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from except I drink it, Thy will be done."
43 And he came and found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them and went away again and prayed the third time saying the same words.

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy. 

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. " 

Amen, Amen and Amen

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