Jim was a participant in my two day seminar Healing The Original Pain of Your Life. On the first day he came to the
difficult realization that he was still carrying unexamined and unhealed emotional pain from his past that was playing itself
out in his life today. More unsettling still was how that unresolved pain had, in his parenting, already spilled over
onto his children in ways that were misshaping, hurting and possibly even damaging them. That night, simultaneously
overcome by both the anguish and guilt he felt in facing these unpleasant truths and his heartbreakingly deep love and
concern for his children, he wrote the words below.
Thank you, Jim, for giving me permission to share it “with anyone else who could gain from my experiences”.
“I was a cripple — learn from me, how to walk — teach your children to run, so they may teach theirs to fly.
I was a dwarf — learn from me to rise and stand tall — teach your children to be pillars and they will teach theirs to be giants.
