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44 How Stories of Harm Lead to Agreements That Bind Us

The Place We Find Ourselves

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It's Your Glory That's Getting You in Trouble With Your Parents

"I had too big a heart, i was too emotional, i needed too much attention," she said. "It is the way i made and i see now, like i loved that about myself, but it felt like too much because they did not have the capacity." She says her parents didn't know what to do with their daughter's 'glorious' image of god. The words suckit up were used by one spiritual leader in my life as an epithet for someone who wasn't doing well at school or church. Suck buttercup. Let's dry it up.

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