Listen To The Children: A Channelling

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Listen to the Children

My nephew               

           is 3

                        and

his mother is Greek.

My nephew

      is

              Greek.

My mother

      is

                   not.

She lives

    in

            Ohio.

And she doesn't know what

my peaceful,

placid,

artistic brother -

her son -

and father to my Greek nephew

is going to do

about his strongwilled,

mother-loving                            

son,

                        who is more Greek than American.

My mother's fear

        is that my brother

and sister-      

in-law   

will decide

that the best place to be 

                   is Greece.

Greece was built

for my nephew,  

                and

my nephew built

for Greece.          

(photo by Makropoulos)

 

But it is likely

our families

will partake in

a miserable,

soul destroying

tug-of-war           

over where

my brother, his wife, & their son

who is Greek

will live,

over how                   

that threesome

should negotiate

two mothers on two

continents.

So my nephew will be

a very unhappy boy

in a very unhappy family

in the 

United States of America.

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I really believe

that our children

at the instant they step

screamingly into

               life on earth,

know

what they need

to be the best

they can be.

The quality of their scream

                            echos

the urgency with which

their needs need

to be met.

Listen to their screams;

listen

to the patterns of their early

                         inclinations

and follow them;

do not ask them

to follow you.

If you do,

you'll have disaster

 or                              

you'll have life as we now know it.

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Our children are

our evolution; they

are our better selves --

If we listen

to them closely

at the instant of their births,

we will hear

the nature

of the evolutionary step

that we are challeneged 

to accomplish in this lifetime.

Our children are our guides.

Many of us are dumb and deaf

to their demands

and we instead force the child

into our demands,

because the challenge of arising

to the nature of their 

call                                 

is so massive,

so               far

outside who we are at that moment

when we first meet them.

A parent's job

is to guide

the child,

using the rudder provided 

by our collective ethical history of life on earth,

but 

a parent's job

is also to yield

to the powerful calling

of his/her young:

to take all the steps necessary 

to make the child

the person she or he

was born to be.

That's a huge responsibility,

and it is

responsibility

at its utmost.

4.

listen to the children!!

even if they say:

                 I am Greek,

and you

                 are Turkish.

Move to Greece,

and learn to love

                 the Greeks.

You Can!

Love Them!!

And in loving them,

you will find

the salvation that you need:

Listen to the Children!!!