I overheard someone say bipolar in a derogatory tone. Seriously?! I know the source is ignorant, but it still stung. Why? You don’t act that way about someone who has a physical illness. I can’t allow that to blow up the restoration I am trying to build. God is good and my life is good. I know that the way I am is the way I am supposed to be. I see the good there. If You want to see it as some kind of evil I didn’t overcome, that’s your issue, not mine. I see you. I see you’re not perfect either, but I see the value in all your good qualities. Can you do the same? Sometimes people are many layers of different things. We can point out ugly. We all have ugly. Or we can point out the positive. Once you start digging for gold you’ll see so much more of it.
As a kid I watched my parents fight about different things. I don't really have any other parents to compare them to so I can't really say whether they were normal fights couples have or not. I couldn't even say what most of them were about except the ones that were about me. We only ate as a family on holidays. My father came home late so we kids ate without him. I do remember spending time with him in the evening before I went to bed so it couldn't have been that late. My own husband gets home a little later because of his job commute so we eat late every night. But home schooling has given us the ability to be more flexible than my Mom was able to be. We had school early the next day. As I got older, I remember my Father being home less and less and the fights seemed to intensify. I remember one night when I was thirteen. I could hear them yelling through the wall. My mom found me crying and I told her I didn't want them to get a divorce. She told me...
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