How wonderfully honest Mark. I love the candle being a way to remind you both to connect and communicate when things are really difficult. Our children are the strictest Jikijitsus, aren’t they? And the greatest teachers by making you just live it. Thinking about my own story: When my boy was a baby, I became so tired, very ill with post-natal depression combined with grieving the loss of my mother and other close family. I just wanted the suffering to end. In a nutshell, it was too much. I can remember my partner saying something along the lines of ‘Good enough really is good enough’ and neither of us needing to make things worse by expecting a lot of ourselves at that time. I think this was my first real experience of compassionate advice. The presence of this little being started to show me a different way, especially as he grew older. Every moment was magic, seeing him in awe at the things I’d seen a thousand times before. I’m so grateful for it all now and that it ended up leading me to Zen practice. As he leaves home for good this weekend, there are so many emotions swirling around like grief, sadness, fear and pure excitement and happiness. But, I can see them all clearly now and am content, to just live it. 😊😊😊
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Thanks Mark for sharing !
How wonderfully honest Mark. I love the candle being a way to remind you both to connect and communicate when things are really difficult. Our children are the strictest Jikijitsus, aren’t they? And the greatest teachers by making you just live it.
Thinking about my own story: When my boy was a baby, I became so tired, very ill with post-natal depression combined with grieving the loss of my mother and other close family. I just wanted the suffering to end. In a nutshell, it was too much.
I can remember my partner saying something along the lines of ‘Good enough really is good enough’ and neither of us needing to make things worse by expecting a lot of ourselves at that time. I think this was my first real experience of compassionate advice.
The presence of this little being started to show me a different way, especially as he grew older. Every moment was magic, seeing him in awe at the things I’d seen a thousand times before.
I’m so grateful for it all now and that it ended up leading me to Zen practice. As he leaves home for good this weekend, there are so many emotions swirling around like grief, sadness, fear and pure excitement and happiness. But, I can see them all clearly now and am content, to just live it. 😊😊😊
Thanks for your comment - beautiful to hear.