Post by majestyjo on Aug 12, 2017 21:04:31 GMT -5
~ WISDOM TO KNOW ~ (More Daily Meditations For Men) ~
No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluble problem.
~ Edmund J. Kiefer ~
Facing, for the first time, a stone wall that we cannot change can be quite a shock. It’s a huge emotional challenge that changes us from boys to men. Some people first meet their insoluble problem in the form of the death of a loved one, others through a child with an incurable handicap, and others by way of a chronic illness or an addiction. Whatever form a man’s stone wall takes, he naturally responds first with a refusal to accept it and a search for a way around it. But when he ultimately learns to accept reality, he changes in a profound way. He has stepped into the world of adults.
We used to feel that our addiction and codependency were burdens, tragedies that we had to carry. But there is a bright side to the dark stories of our past: when we got honest about our powerlessness, we became real men.
Today I accept my powerlessness once again and feel grateful for the wisdom it has taught me.
No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluble problem.
~ Edmund J. Kiefer ~
Facing, for the first time, a stone wall that we cannot change can be quite a shock. It’s a huge emotional challenge that changes us from boys to men. Some people first meet their insoluble problem in the form of the death of a loved one, others through a child with an incurable handicap, and others by way of a chronic illness or an addiction. Whatever form a man’s stone wall takes, he naturally responds first with a refusal to accept it and a search for a way around it. But when he ultimately learns to accept reality, he changes in a profound way. He has stepped into the world of adults.
We used to feel that our addiction and codependency were burdens, tragedies that we had to carry. But there is a bright side to the dark stories of our past: when we got honest about our powerlessness, we became real men.
Today I accept my powerlessness once again and feel grateful for the wisdom it has taught me.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.