Straps
RM: Did you ever see him cry?
AS: When he was about 10 years old, Tupac had been running to catch a ball and he ran square into one of the New York cement park benches. I took him to the hospital and when it was our turn they got straps and they're about to strap him in. I said, "Okay, have you spoken to him to explain what you're about to do? He's a human being, explain it to him what you're about to do and maybe you won't need those straps." Tupac could be brought to calmness by speaking to him in a rational way. One day he went to the dentist and it was the same thing. Tupac said, "Can you give me a mirror? I need to see what you're doing." As long as he could see what he was doin', he really was fine.
I can't get this interview out of my head. If we really love people, our children or whoever, don't we owe it to them to speak rationally to them and show them what He's doing, rather than bring in the straps and try to go to work on them? Maybe by treating them with all the love and respect that He has for them, we won't need those straps.
If we could but give them a mirror, that is our lives, they could see His unique handiwork and desire to feel fine also.
Can you give me a mirror?
AS: When he was about 10 years old, Tupac had been running to catch a ball and he ran square into one of the New York cement park benches. I took him to the hospital and when it was our turn they got straps and they're about to strap him in. I said, "Okay, have you spoken to him to explain what you're about to do? He's a human being, explain it to him what you're about to do and maybe you won't need those straps." Tupac could be brought to calmness by speaking to him in a rational way. One day he went to the dentist and it was the same thing. Tupac said, "Can you give me a mirror? I need to see what you're doing." As long as he could see what he was doin', he really was fine.
I can't get this interview out of my head. If we really love people, our children or whoever, don't we owe it to them to speak rationally to them and show them what He's doing, rather than bring in the straps and try to go to work on them? Maybe by treating them with all the love and respect that He has for them, we won't need those straps.
If we could but give them a mirror, that is our lives, they could see His unique handiwork and desire to feel fine also.
Can you give me a mirror?
posted by lee at 9:45 AM
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Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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