I hope you are able to connect yourself to the great One and get your strength there so you can be present to listen to your child. The biggest thing kids or anyone needs is to Be Heard. It looks so humanly needy, but couldn’t it also be an expression of how God is in us looping around to look back on the Creation? It’s a mystery, but so beautiful. Just listening and being present is what he needs. If you truly know it is going to be OK, he will absorb that eventually.

I’m not such a good listener. My time is at hand, and I am working on it. But, I do see how listening is the gift of letting someone do their “Judge Your Neighbor” (JYN) as the first step of The Work. Once you do your own JYN worksheet, you will see that a download of poop has to happen. Divulge out the crap of the brain. Get it exposed into the light. Then Bring “every thought captive to Christ” through your Work. Each thought/belief gets its turn to run through The Work. Is it true? Can I really know that it’s true? What happens when I think that thought? Who would I be without the thought? What are the turnaournds? Is the turnaround true? Can I really know that it’s true?…

By teaching The Work to our kids, gently just through guided conversation over the years, they will learn to ask themselves these questions throughout their life. They could be more free of these silly little beliefs (be-lies?) and move quickly to the next real moment.

I saw a quote from  Pema Chodron, one of my favorites this week. Something like, “If death is certain, but the time of death is not known, what is important?”  It’s a Buddhist koan, which means a question that you ponder for yourself. Sort of a riddle, but as your mind works on it, this gives you meditation on truth.