Message of Love: Let go of the reigns of life and celebrate new found joy.
~ Fun Art ~
Yesterday my 9 year-old son came home with a thick coat of dried, flaking paint on his face. I asked him how he liked it and he admitted that it made his face hurt. With this comment I chuckled inside because Leo’s face is ultra-animated and the paint looked like someone had used glue to stick it on, especially on his eyebrows, which were painted in broad yellow strokes. “Well, I’ll help you take it off tonight before your shower,” I assured him.
~ Happy Happy ~
Little did I realize the agony that we both had in store for us. Moments into applying makeup remover cream all over his face, I realized that the paint was acrylic, something that is not easily removed once it dries. Everyone helped, first with cotton swabs, then with a wet wash cloth, and finally with a scrub brush. By the time we were nearly done, my son’s face blotched with redness and his eyes full of tears, I felt some protective anger rising in me.
“Who did this to you?” I asked,”Where was the adult supervisor?”
It turns out that the owner of the art clinic where he takes a Saturday class did it to him, with my son’s encouragement.
“Well, I’m going to send her an email,” I started to say, then I quickly changed it to, “Well, I guess you won’t be allowing her to paint your face again after all of this, will you?”
“No, definitely not,” he responded, and added, “Not unless she uses face paints next time.”
So there you have it! My ego was once again conquered because I resisted the urge to step in and attempt to control or dominate the situation. I understood that the experience started out as fun and quite a lot of attention from the girls and turned into a learning experience for the both of us.
In Surrender, Beth
“Esther has literally received this knowing and built new language. Not new words and not new meaning of words but new combinations of words that are building a new language in the way man approaches his connection to Nonphysical.”
— Abraham
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