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school of jude: lesson #533
And love is not the easy thing…
I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
All That You Can’t Leave Behind, U2
Lesson #533: When your child cries, you cry.
No Commentsschool of jude: lessons #503 & #519
Maybe I’m amazed at the way you help me sing my song,
right me when I’m wrong,
Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you.
Paul McCartney, Maybe I’m Amazed
…weak flesh, that least-suspected place, where health and growth will be revealed.
Richard Rohr, Radical Grace
Lesson #503: My husband is far more amazing than I have ever given him credit for.
Lesson #519: I am desperately weak and hopelessly dependent – so much more than I could have possibly imagined.
No Commentsschool of jude: lesson #477
Thank you, frailty
Thank you, consequence
Thank you, thank you, silence
Thank You, Alanis Morissette
Lesson #477:
There is grace in 3 a.m. fussies.
In t-shirts saturated in spit-up milk.
In a coming-apart swaddle.
In a mustard-poop diaper.
In a gummy smile.
In not being able to figure it out.
In getting his cues all mixed up and changing his dry diaper when all he wants to do is eat.
There’s grace in the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen.
1 Commentschool of jude: lessons #321 & #357
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won’t all go the way it should
But I know the heart of life is good.
John Mayer, Heart of Life
Lesson #321: Everything may not be ok…and that’s ok.
Lesson #357: Doctors have their research, experts have their books, other parents have their opinions. But at the end of the day what works for Jude and me is what’s right.
4 Commentsschool of jude: lessons #59 and #81
Can’t you see, it’s amazing what you do to me. You took my heart and made me feel things I never felt before. And it’s changing me. I lose direction so suddenly. Shook me up and threw me around and helped me learn to breathe it all in. You help me learn to breathe it all in.
- Mindy Smith, It’s Amazing
Lesson #59: Parenthood is not for perfectionists. It is for the un-made-up, un-showered, un-slept who are just fool enough to keep trying, keep fouling it up, and keep loving.
Lesson #81: You can love someone to the stars and back again, love them with every breath in you, love them more than your own life, and still not know what they need when they cry.
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