Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Parenting Opportunity

You have to say goodbye --
    to truly detach from old ways of relating.

Else you cling,
                intrude,
                     stumble,
                          embarrass.

You become a secret service person
    looking round the edges...
      never far yet out of range
          unless need or danger enters.

It is anonymous work.

No, really, you won't get credit for it.  That's not the point.

What is the point?
     the privilege to love.
         the delight in life made manifest.
              the witness of a new world emerging.

What a privilege.  What a gift.  What an opportunity for growth.

blessings be.