Parenting

"Parenting in all of it's stages is a spiritual path with mythic twists and turns.  If your spiritual goal is to embrace life, moment by moment, in both rapture and it's pain, then parenting offers you that opportunity every day.   Holy texts throughout the ages tell us that the truth is to be found between the seeming opposites of life.  Between your own will and the greater will; between limits and liberty; between the call to care for others and the need to care for yourself.   In the parent-child relationship you get excellent feedback all the time from a pint-sized spiritual master whose specialty lies in teaching you how to keep on loving even when you are tired, scared, confused or pissed off.  Isn't that what every seeker is after?"  Elizabeth Lesser