Me ([info]amusedmaze) wrote,
@ 2006-11-22 12:38:00
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the five people you meet in heaven

"All parents damage their children. It can not be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces beyond repair." - Mitch Albom


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[info]sir_dave
2006-11-22 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Although this is a very common thing that needs more recognition, I don't think it's ever irreparable, and I do think it can be avoided. For a very good example of a marvelous father, see "The Hiding Place", by Corrie ten Boom, in which we see her survive a Nazi concentration camp for the heinous sin of sheltering Jews. First we see her remarkable father; and then we see what he put in his daughters.

"No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still."
Betsie ten Boom

Spiritual inheritance was meant for blessing; but wherever there is unbelief, it becomes a mechanism for curses. Very rarely do we see the blessing, because so few people allow God to use spiritual inheritance in that way; but that is what it was originally for.

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[info]shadmere
2006-11-22 07:39 pm UTC (link)
Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness." - J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

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[info]amusedmaze
2006-11-22 07:51 pm UTC (link)
I do love you, but may I just say that this quote is not well worded and not that deep.

Maybe for an old world child's story like Peter Pan, it can be acceptable or something. I have to admit I read that it was peter pan after I read the quote and was hoping for something striking to be disappointed by it.

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[info]shadmere
2006-11-22 08:32 pm UTC (link)
. . . I read your post and thought of a quote from Peter Pan. That's all. I think the quote is somewhat piercing, and brings to mind the considerations of "What is the difference between a child and an adult?"

I'm baffled by your "old world child's story" comment, however.

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[info]amusedmaze
2006-11-22 08:42 pm UTC (link)
I love how your mind is just afloat with quotes. Ha! I'm a poet and I didn't know it! But how you just have quotes from start to finish about your head.

Well, the language and the depth makes sense after I saw that it was a quote from Peter Pan - a child's story, written long ago. The language was different and the depth is not lacking as much as it is just a child's story's insight.

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[info]shadmere
2006-11-22 08:44 pm UTC (link)
Well, I remembered the quote, but I did have to look it up to make sure it was verbatim. =Þ

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[info]amusedmaze
2006-11-24 06:58 pm UTC (link)
I miss your old icon.

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[info]times_suspended
2006-11-22 09:02 pm UTC (link)
This is comforting and scary. Eek.

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[info]castlelady
2006-11-23 04:57 am UTC (link)
....a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces beyond repair.

Which would describe my parents completely.

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[info]amusedmaze
2006-11-23 02:44 pm UTC (link)
...that you see yourself as beyond repair is interesting to me...

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[info]castlelady
2006-11-25 03:15 am UTC (link)
No, not myself. My childhood yes, since it was broken into pieces and is beyond repair, cause it's gone. As for myself, I'm restored from that. I have a few scars that break open on occasion, but other than that, this part of my life is over and dealt with.

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[info]amusedmaze
2006-11-27 01:52 pm UTC (link)
Well, good.

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