I have been working on our family history, with my sister, for about 10 years now. This week was our outing to allow her granddaughter to help us print a story about our mother.
We felt that Mom was the silent partener in the 60 year marriage to our father and it was about time she got some credit for the roll she played in giving us a very good childhood.
Our search and gather has been 10 years and much information. Starting with our great-great grandfather. We decided to do JUST MOM. As I went through the information. I called my sister and shared more information about my childhood. It was interesting because she didn't remember that I had panic attacks as a child or I wasn't allowed to go to kindergarten. ( Too Many Children) Or even that I had been kept separate of the other babies because, I was born with a rash that plaged me until Junior High School.
I realize that my early years had set me on a spirital path of very different understanding that makes this world go round. I realize coming in I was carrying my mother's fears to work out at a time that women were subservant and she was caught in a cycle that was beyond her. I too was born subservant but I was her great white hope to release the women of our family.
I now realize how my words are so important and could never be a quick witted person in a quick situation. So many times I wished I could but as I muled what had really happened. I realized that it all came from fear. Even tho the quick come back was funny and witty and the person's involved did not know what had hit them until later. The quiet response was my real blessing to truly understand the situation completely. The result was that No one deserves to be under cut and layed out flat with words, but it takes practice to know what the true response should be to get the positive result. What is good for one is good for both. Lilly
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