Child Abu&e-Shaz

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Hi Shaz,

 

Thank you so much for your reply. I felt strong feelings inside of me when I

read your post, it touched deep in my heart. You were able to see that I was in

personal pain over this as well as wanting care for the baby I also realised her

parents needed their own kind of care for their broken childhoods.

 

I am pleased to tell you that the correct authorities are now involved with the

family 24/7 and going back to basics and showing them how to parent. I will be

there to help 'hold' them up spiritually with unconditional love and compassion,

while they embark on this new chapter of family life.

 

Blessings, Iona x

 

, " shaktiaz " <shaktiaz

wrote:

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> Iona,

>

> I think sometimes Life calls on us to bear witness to horror. And for those

who have lived through horror, sometimes Life calls on us to stand both as a

mirror and a bridge, recognizing that " there, but by the grace of God, go I. "

And, I think, sometimes it calls on us to stand holding the lightning bolt -- to

illuminate suffering, to burn away the scarring we wrap around our own hearts,

and to pierce the boil.

>

> I think you are being called, Iona. You know how it is to suffer, and perhaps

even to grow numb to our own pain, and to wake up, and to scream. You also know

how it is to love unconditionally, to hold compassion. But perhaps it is the

lightning bolt which has got you now, burning a hole in your hand, causing you

to pause and question yourself.

>

> I say go support your friend. Be there for him. But rather than give him a

shoulder to lean on, lift up your hand, Iona, and let that lightning bolt pierce

you both. Let it illuminate the suffering, so that he can feel his own and find

compassion for this tiny innocent soul who came to change his life.

>

> Be there for him, but not in the way he asks. Be there as a mirror, to help

him see the abused child who lives within him, hidden behind walls of amnesia

and pain. Be there as a bridge, helping him accept the services and teachings

and support the child protective system has to offer. But more than anything, be

there as a lightning bolt, saying NO MORE OF THIS! WAKE UP AND LOOK WHAT YOU

HAVE DONE! Hold his feet to the fire, Iona, but lovingly, steadily,

compassionately, knowing that each of us has done this, in some form or fashion,

in some lifetime or another, and that it is only by the grace of God that we

have learned another way.

>

> Peace,

> Shaz

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