When you take the lyrics "would he devote that Sacred Head for such a worm as I?" into your very core as a 5-year-old, it takes A LOT to get shut of that unsightly baggage as an adult.
Even "Amazing Grace": "...how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me...."
Really? I was a child. A baby.
A wretch?
Reprobate & miscreant are some of the synonyms. I was to learn those as well.
I still struggle against a #fundamentalist mindset gifted to me in the cradle. I still struggle against the fundamental lack of #SelfWorth that underlies so much of who I am.
I am healthier than I was. #Meds...#therapy...loving support from people who give me #grace (grace = full acceptance; grace = accepting that you are accepted)...all have contributed to a measure of healing.
But I will likely struggle with these things in some form for the rest of my life.
"There is something about learning, about admitting 'I don’t know,' that brings you back into that space of childhood, with its mix of excitement and possibility and fear and shame. There is something about being a beginner again."
Today at @longreads, Devin Kelly overcomes the inertia of learning a new skill as an adult to experience joy, not just because of success, but because of perseverance.
I'm Kahlil, but you may call me Lunæros! I'm extremely new here, just making my way downtown, migrating from the abdominal X app for a plethora of reasons.
Grace is the act of granting to others understanding and compassion when they "don't deserve" it. it's easier to give when we remember how many times others have done the same for us. (And if they haven't, how we wish that they had.)
Deep in thought after selling our Chevy Cruze to a super nice woman who is suffering from a genetic disease. She said she has 3 good years left and wants to spend them driving back and forth from #Minnesota to Texas where her grand kids are. I'm sure this car is up for the road trips.
I wonder though how I would meet such a challenge. I'm safely ensconced in my immortality cocoon. The day that unravels, I hope I can meet the challenge with the same #fortitude and #grace that I witnessed today.
So far, the birthing pangs of whatever this is have been messy in terms of their effect on people. #oliphant#hachyderm#tusky and I am sure many others have found that #moderation and #governance are sticky, thorny functions where people are often made very unhappy, by decisions or by experiences or by the cost of these on relationships and communities.
Muy bellas canciones en una voz majestuosa como pocas. Es lo que nos dejó Jeff Buckley en su corto paso por este mundo.
Este es su único álbum de estudio «Grace», publicado en 1994, 3 años antes de su muerte.
#GreatAlbums1990s – TOP 20 - #JeffBuckley – #Grace (1994). Of all the artists who’ve mined the Zeppelin riff factory, Buckley was one of the few to care less about virtuosity and bombast than the emotional heights he could scale by wailing like Robert Plant. Of course Jeff’s dad, Tim Buckley, wailed as assuredly – but it’s more his dad’s ethereal folk informing the unearthly covers of “Lilac Time” and Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” God only knows what he’d have done if he’d lived. #GreatRockAlbums, #Rock
TNA IMPACT! Discussion Thread 02/01/24
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