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Camping
A sentence I wrote six years ago seems even truer now. Those of you who are parents in complicated relationships with your adult children will get this. It took me a long time to get it but I finally did and I’m glad of it.
Here’s the answer — it’s not up to us to get things resolved. It’s up to us to be the tent in the wilderness where the lantern is shining through the canvas.
When I stopped asking questions, stopped trying to be in charge, refrained from interfering, stopped having an opinion about every situation, and lost the reflex to be right, I became the tent in the wilderness where the lantern is shining through the canvas.
And it’s lovely in my tent. Crowded sometimes, but really lovely.
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Photo: Bobby Burch, Unsplash
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I love it and hate it when you get on these rolls and post every day. I always find at least two other posts I have to read and before I know it, I have lost 45 minutes. You are so talented. thank you so much for the wonderful 45 minutes of time I should have been doing some work!.
And I found it to be a relief to be in that tent.
Still learning how to be a tent in the wilderness, stumbling a bit, but recognizing it’s real strength.
i get every word of this and it is a lovely view from inside the tent.