Working at Home now ......... fly into Belfast tomorrow ..... ..
.... concerned that friend Val has just gone into Hospital again with more chest/heart/circulation issues ........ and friend Lyn just had a big big major op in Wigan.
We all have issues in our lives.
Thinking still about Vicky Pollard, and I will for sometime, ..... when she and her peers have issues they are often become major issues.
To help put things right - we need to be able to place our hands on the handles and levers to make things work for us. Often they don't know where these buttons and levers are ............ they don't know how to make life work for them ........ how to draw on the resources around them.
Sometimes they are called 'social skills' or 'communication skills' or 'assertiveness'.
"yes but no but yes but no but ...... yeah"
'Blame the parents' some say.
My experience is that ...... so many humans have inadequate resources to bring to positive living.
Hear this Miss Vicky Pollard
hear this Pip Wilson
hear this you - you beautiful human reading this ..........
this is for us NOT just for
Vicky Pollard.
"Grace strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of an empty and meaningless life…
when,
year after year,
the longed for perfection does not appear,
when the old compulsions rage within us as they have for decades,
when despair destroys all joy and courage.
Sometimes at that moment a ray of light breaks into our darkness,
and it is as though a voice were saying,
‘ You are accepted.
You are accepted,
accepted by that which is greater than you,
and the name of which you do not know.
Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later.
Do not do anything now; perhaps later you will do much.
Do not seek anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything.
Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.’
If that happens to us, we experience grace."
paul tillich
..... I weep ...............
