🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️

Catholic 🇻🇦| bookworm 📚| artist 🎨| aussie 🇦🇺| teacher 👩🏼‍🏫| 1985 | Quietly praying for a husband who loves Christ, thinks deeply, and laughs easily.

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

I’m so pleased I managed one creative endeavor this year 🥰

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"If you learn nothing except Christ, you learn everything."

- St. Bonaventure

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

"DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME "

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

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[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

take part in their games and put up with their noise making and the unavoidable inconvenience they cause you." 

So many hurts are inflicted by children, on children and go untold, undisciplined and unresolved.

Follow the example of the Saints and be present.

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

I came across this long ago meme I’d saved. It’d always made me chuckle - it’s humorous and dark with the perfect touch of reality.

But, where I am in my life’s walk confronts this notion of giving children unfettered access to adult free time.

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

As St John Bosco says so aptly "Remember that boys [and girls] break rules more through thoughtlessness than through malice, more through lack of supervision than through evil intent. Constantly look after them, discretely keep an eye on them, …

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

Found one of my favorite videos

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

"Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."

Luke 1:38

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

@OdillaNoralis You are also allowed to set boundaries. They can be healthy and necessary for us to live safe and whole lives - especially if the violation of those boundaries will keep us in a state of either hypoarousal or hyperarousal - both of which can be severely damaging long term.

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

@OdillaNoralis forgiveness is for you and your own healing. It isn’t about suppressing and not feeling but acknowledging and feeling the full depth of woundedness which has affected you.
Bob Schuchts authored “Be Healed” which covers this in greater depth.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

@easternair355 @pepe_hermit And the hopelessness? From everything I’ve read (from Gabor Maté, to Dan Allender, to Bob Schuchts, to Bessel van de Kalk) and experienced personally, it’s deeply internalised shame. Shame breeds contempt for self or contempt for others and it is a vicious cycle of hopelessness.

[🌸 ℝ𝕦𝕥𝕙🇻🇦✝️ @ruthmarietea]

@easternair355 @pepe_hermit activity, ignoring safety precautions), dissociative behaviours and addictions.
My family always told me I’m loved, hugged me, supported me. But every family has issues and even the most picture perfect families can hide the darkest of adverse childhood experiences.