@Weemie I read the entries on this page and I wanted to share a devotion or prayer if you will. it goes like this...
"Let what I feel fill me but not consume me, let me follow what I feel but not be forced.
Let me become the kind of soul who never clings too hard, who loves, yet lets go
and let me learn from all my losses. Let me out and let me in and let me see and let me be,
A window, maybe broken, but through which a bit of air and sunlight comes."
The last line of this devotion by Jack Vesey popped into my mind when you were discussing dehumanization and
how we have been corrupted. I immediately thought of the broken window that still lets in air and sunshine.
I guess that is my way of dealing with this crap, I try to find the positives but there aren't many. I think a lot of body shaming harmed me most of all. That is the broken window. But compassion, understanding, and validation are the air, and living a good life in spite of things is the sunshine.
Is body shaming dehumanizing?
Speaking of dehumanization I remember being carried under someone's arm and I felt like a piece of wood, just numb and dead inside without words for feelings for myself, really, really numb.
Anyway I hope you like the prayer devotion and I hope that it helps you at times as it has for me, But if not no harm, no foul. I still want to show my support and I hope I've not done anything wrong by posting this "book" lol
Wishing you the best,
Lionheart
"Let what I feel fill me but not consume me, let me follow what I feel but not be forced.
Let me become the kind of soul who never clings too hard, who loves, yet lets go
and let me learn from all my losses. Let me out and let me in and let me see and let me be,
A window, maybe broken, but through which a bit of air and sunlight comes."
The last line of this devotion by Jack Vesey popped into my mind when you were discussing dehumanization and
how we have been corrupted. I immediately thought of the broken window that still lets in air and sunshine.
I guess that is my way of dealing with this crap, I try to find the positives but there aren't many. I think a lot of body shaming harmed me most of all. That is the broken window. But compassion, understanding, and validation are the air, and living a good life in spite of things is the sunshine.
Is body shaming dehumanizing?
Speaking of dehumanization I remember being carried under someone's arm and I felt like a piece of wood, just numb and dead inside without words for feelings for myself, really, really numb.
Anyway I hope you like the prayer devotion and I hope that it helps you at times as it has for me, But if not no harm, no foul. I still want to show my support and I hope I've not done anything wrong by posting this "book" lol
Wishing you the best,
Lionheart