Helping a Child
Lectio Divina in Psalm 127
Silence: Stand at the intersection and see ancient paths.
Meditation: I read history to understand what will be.
Prayer: You are calling me to war but I don't kow how to fight.
Lectio: Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hand. (Psalm 127:4)
Contemplation: A sharp arrow hurts the hand of an untrained warrior.
Oration: I don't know what I am doing. A father-figure request has been made of me; a sharp arrow placed in my hand. All arrows are differently made; follow different flight paths. Whose fault is it that the arrow in the warrior's hand is not helping, but hurting? Is a warrior's pain the arrow's fault?
No.
An arrow I didn't craft, of previous uses I am ignorant; assigned to me by a frustrated warrior, is frustrating me. I am mishandling my relationship with the child by leveling expectations the child is unable to meet. I came through trusting Jesus but the child may need to trust Jesus and the therapists. Depression and suicide attempts didn't live in my quiver.
Incarnation: Go to war for the benefit of the child by nonjudgementally finding resources I didn't need as a child. Overcome my ignorance to help a child fly.
Silence: Stand at the intersection and see ancient paths.
Meditation: I read history to understand what will be.
Prayer: You are calling me to war but I don't kow how to fight.
Lectio: Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hand. (Psalm 127:4)
Contemplation: A sharp arrow hurts the hand of an untrained warrior.
Oration: I don't know what I am doing. A father-figure request has been made of me; a sharp arrow placed in my hand. All arrows are differently made; follow different flight paths. Whose fault is it that the arrow in the warrior's hand is not helping, but hurting? Is a warrior's pain the arrow's fault?
No.
An arrow I didn't craft, of previous uses I am ignorant; assigned to me by a frustrated warrior, is frustrating me. I am mishandling my relationship with the child by leveling expectations the child is unable to meet. I came through trusting Jesus but the child may need to trust Jesus and the therapists. Depression and suicide attempts didn't live in my quiver.
Incarnation: Go to war for the benefit of the child by nonjudgementally finding resources I didn't need as a child. Overcome my ignorance to help a child fly.
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