Keep Your Hands Offa My Mojo

[hoosiermama]

no, of course you don't make any decisions about anything based upon the delirious, desperate ravings of a woman who's lost her Center--well before Signore. maybe you don't even read them for now. if you do, you employ the wonderful understanding of boundaries you've demonstrated. you know, you can run this over and over in your mind, but none of what she has said means anything besides what she was feeling and spewing in the moment. should she have spewed? nope. but she did, and it sits in your Inbox and you take it for what's it's worth--a snapshot, not an indepth dissertation. you don't agonize over analyzing it--no point, really. yeah, she's hurting over something that she knows she's caused but can't admit it yet because she has to get her mojo to a point of at least minimal capacity or the admission will destroy her. she may choose to have the courage to go there, or she may not. yeah, right now she hurts so much that she most definitely wants to be rescued, to be out of the pain.

in short, you do nothing for now except recognize her desperation and stand back and shake your head, and be sure Themselves are safe.

btw, re: jesuits...one of my current favorite statements is from John Powell S.J.: our lives are shaped by those who love us and those who refuse to love us.