“Q: We sometimes wonder whether we can make it. / / A: You can make it. The ray of ligh…
“Q: We sometimes wonder whether we can make it. / / A: You can make it. The ray of light can break through / years of hard resistance, through thousands of mistakes. / This is not simply an encouragement. It is fact.” Esoteric Mind Power, p. 62
This is Rosalie on Dad’s behalf – he wants to say there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The optometrist is hopeful that glasses w…
This is Rosalie on Dad’s behalf – he wants to say there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The optometrist is hopeful that glasses will provide some help with sight and a large magnifying glass for computer work should help him get back online. It will probably be about 2 weeks … he’s looking forward to the day!!
I learned something tonight as my husband and I were talking about a difficult topic. It is one we both struggle with, but for different…
I learned something tonight as my husband and I were talking about a difficult topic. It is one we both struggle with, but for different reasons. It is also one we have both felt is unsolvable, with no end in sight. Not our marriage of course, but just this one particular issue within the marriage. The no end in sight causes hopeless feelings and impacts our relationship negatively. It can begin to feel like the elephant in the room no one talks about because why talk about it, it will never change. We decided to try something. We set a goal to look at this issue again in April 2010 and evaluate again where we are with it. We can still discuss it periodically as it naturally comes up in our daily lives, but we are not focusing on solving it until April. This also helps us feel like we are no longer focusing on when will this get resolved? We have agreed to “table it” and are open to more information coming that may be needed to make this decision. Even then, the goal will be to re-evaluate, not necessarily solve it in April. If we can solve it great, but minimally revisit and decide from there what the next step is. Part of the pain of this issue is the feeling that it will go on forever…with no resolution. The decision to put a time line on it made us both feel that this is not forever, and we have more control over solving it instead of being at the mercy of the problem and it is in control since we can’t solve it. I don’t know if this will make sense to you…but it felt like an important tool we just learned in dealing with problems that seem unresolvable. We took the power out of the unknown and put some structure to it which gives us a sense of hope. We now feel that one way or another, resolution will come because we will consciously deal with it in a constructive way. I think sometimes in relationships we “beat a dead horse,” so to speak. We keep talking and talking about something that we don’t have enough information to solve. The expectation is we solve it, but we don’t have what we need yet to solve it. Just some thoughts from a rambling artist/therapist, that just like you has to work hard on relationships and deal with difficulties in life. So take some healthy control, set a goal and re-evaluate. My relationship recipe tip for the week! Hope you find something usable in it : ) Am I being Dear Abby? Just wanted to share it and hope it can help someone. Thanks! / Lynn
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