A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. --Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A strong, healthy tree is one which is free to grow straight and tall. A weak tree often must lean against another for support. It is not that different with people. We are not healthy and strong when we must always lean on another to support us.
This doesn't mean it isn't healthy to accept help. But the best help we can get or give is that which enables us to do things without it. Sometimes we think we lose a relationship when others don't need our help, or when we don't need theirs all the time. The reverse is true. Only when we are each strong enough to stand on our own can we really share the kind of help, which allows both helped and helper to be independent.
GammyRose said
May 8, 2005
Thanks Rick, you have a great sober day also.May every post ,post and the computer do what it's suppose to, not what it wants to.
(((Hugs)))
GammyRose
crambo said
May 8, 2005
Thanks for the mothers day greeting! I've put in a lot of mom hours(5 kids..) and it's nice that people remember just what a tough job it is. It is my kids that keep me sober, so I have just as much to thank them for!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
HAVE A HAPPY SOBER DAY.
ENJOY THE MANY MOMENTS
LUV YA ALL
A strong, healthy tree is one which is free to grow straight and tall. A weak tree often must lean against another for support. It is not that different with people. We are not healthy and strong when we must always lean on another to support us.
This doesn't mean it isn't healthy to accept help. But the best help we can get or give is that which enables us to do things without it. Sometimes we think we lose a relationship when others don't need our help, or when we don't need theirs all the time. The reverse is true. Only when we are each strong enough to stand on our own can we really share the kind of help, which allows both helped and helper to be independent.
Thanks Rick, you have a great sober day also.May every post ,post and the computer do what it's suppose to, not what it wants to.
(((Hugs)))
GammyRose
Thanks for the mothers day greeting! I've put in a lot of mom hours(5 kids..) and it's nice that people remember just what a tough job it is. It is my kids that keep me sober, so I have just as much to thank them for!
Jill