{"id":568,"date":"2011-05-03T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:33:14","slug":"therethere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/therethere\/","title":{"rendered":"There,There."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 There, there.\u00a0 It is all going to be alright.\u00a0 It is all going to be alright.<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

You know what is wrong with you gal?<\/p>\n

Well, as a matter of fact- I could go through a whole litney of what is wrong with me.\u00a0 And then I start to cry-tears welling.\u00a0 Holding back-not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

Looky here gal, she said.<\/p>\n

I did. Every inch of her life was right there on her face.\u00a0 Not hidden, not smoothed out and inflated.\u00a0 Life in every crease and crevice.\u00a0 She earned every one.<\/p>\n

You are looking for a there, there, she said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Your there, there.\u00a0 Someone to come along and tap you gently on the shoulder, look you right in the eye, pull you close into a deep hug and whisper,<\/p>\n

there,there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I cried even more.<\/p>\n

She was right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last four years have been an emotional boat load of heaves and ho’s.\u00a0 From one destination to another-coming across things not on the map-circumstances that needed to be dealt with in the here and now-except the here and now kept going on and on so much I found myself lost in the sensation of any kind of feeling.Void.\u00a0 There was no time.\u00a0 The here and now was robbing me of the genuine- because everything was requiring me to participate on a level of\u00a0 deep impact. I just kept moving.\u00a0 I just keep moving.\u00a0 It is the remedy.\u00a0 It is the solution. It is what keeps me, oddly enough in the present.\u00a0 How ironic.<\/p>\n

If you are one of those women who is so inclined to fix, on all kinds of multi levels, and if you choose to see and be aware-I am not sure there will always be a there, there-waiting in the wings when you decide to slow down long enough.\u00a0 Items don’t have to be checked off the list of life. Just about anything can wait-and your child will not dissolve into a heaping pile of emotional distress if you can not do everything-all the time.\u00a0 Children need to know they are loved and safe. That covers a great deal.\u00a0 Marriages require work and compromise and partners need to know they are loved and that they too\u00a0are safe-even from things that have been there long before you ever entered the picture.\u00a0 There, there’s are hard to come by these days.The there, theres in the every day are not where you think you will find them-but sometimes, on a day when the weight of the world is right there between my heart and soul and sleep has\u00a0not been my friend-when circumstance is not working in my favor and my wish list is running longer than usual-\u00a0I find my own there, there.\u00a0 A whisper to\u00a0 my self, filled with the knowing of self preservation and skill- with a solid hug of perseverance and the assurance that righteousness brings.<\/p>\n

There,there.<\/p>\n

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