“I do not agree with you, but I will also not stop seeing the beloved child made in the image of God in you, even if you refuse to see it in others.” Yes. This is just the beautiful language needed now. I have had to painfully walk away from two precious relationships in the last year over a loss at how to bridge our increasingly divergent perspectives. All the while still believing in the inherent goodness of the other.
“Understanding attachment and enmeshment and boundaries and deep communication will benefit any and all relationships you have…” We don’t come with manuals and there are scarce teachings available to us as youth about these critical relationship parameters. I think as for all primate species, we are left on what is often a a desert island or even more harsh territory of example. Example of our parents or elders in proximity as we grow. It is no wonder so many of us are shipwrecked by our 20s or flounder into midlife and beyond. Thank you for serving as a compass, dear friend.
“I do not agree with you, but I will also not stop seeing the beloved child made in the image of God in you, even if you refuse to see it in others.” Yes. This is just the beautiful language needed now. I have had to painfully walk away from two precious relationships in the last year over a loss at how to bridge our increasingly divergent perspectives. All the while still believing in the inherent goodness of the other.
“Understanding attachment and enmeshment and boundaries and deep communication will benefit any and all relationships you have…” We don’t come with manuals and there are scarce teachings available to us as youth about these critical relationship parameters. I think as for all primate species, we are left on what is often a a desert island or even more harsh territory of example. Example of our parents or elders in proximity as we grow. It is no wonder so many of us are shipwrecked by our 20s or flounder into midlife and beyond. Thank you for serving as a compass, dear friend.