{ Parallel Pain }

A friend asked me to listen to a radio conversation about this….

Should a parent share her pain with her own children?

Would it help?

Would it wound?

Would it open walls?

Would it cleanse?

Would it explain?

Should a parent share his pain?

 

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

–Psalm 32:3

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.moodyradio.org/programs/chris-fabry-live/2018/04-2018/2018.04.16-sharing-a-parents-pain/

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/parallel/

What do you think?

{ Children & Grownups }

Children cry, laugh, and rage;

Grownups stifle feelings.

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Children express thoughts.

Grownups suppress them.

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Children dance.

Grownups sit.

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Children hug their best friends.

Grownups sip coffee across tables, asking polite questions.

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Children love without fear and believe what seems impossible.

Grownups love guardedly, and believe only what they see.

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Children embrace life,

And grownups fear death.

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“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3-4