I have heard that between birth and five years of age, the average child receives 431 negative messages every day.
-get down
-don’t do that
-be quiet
-no
-look at the state of you
-…………….off you little……………
-you have got dirt on our………….
-don’t touch
So………..we repress our feelings because ‘We feel’ they are unacceptable to others and the mask comes in handy in the meetings and the meeting.
We can pretend we have it ‘all together’ behind the mask! The mask helps to protect from the negatives in daily life. Yes – .......... - as you know.
Seeing behind the behaviour, the mask, the army uniform----------------------------------------I see a beautiful human who Jesus was born for and…………………… (fill in yourself bit)
“ We are sick as we are secret”
John Berryman. Poet
As the violence and the loudness, the oppression, the killing at home or abroad – happens I have decided to make my life an act of love.
Let us join the vulnerable babe this Christmas. Maskless vulnerability.
So love can get in.
So love can get out.
