Comments on: Colours of the fall http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Greenman http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2824 Greenman Fri, 03 Sep 2004 05:02:05 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2824 Your mother was very astute/wise Bene. Intellectualising is a quite effective way of distancing yourself from horror of this nature. By looking at it in an intellectual manner you have the opportunity to put aside all the emotion for a while to enable all the cognitive processing to happen. The processing of all the emotional stuff must happen but it can happen more gently over time. Your mother was very astute/wise Bene.

Intellectualising is a quite effective way of distancing yourself from horror of this nature. By looking at it in an intellectual manner you have the opportunity to put aside all the emotion for a while to enable all the cognitive processing to happen.

The processing of all the emotional stuff must happen but it can happen more gently over time.

]]> By: Susan http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2823 Susan Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:49:52 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2823 What a tramatic experience for you! I'm speechless. I hope you have found comfort and healing as time went on. What a tramatic experience for you! I’m speechless. I hope you have found comfort and healing as time went on.

]]> By: Missy http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2822 Missy Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:31:50 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2822 B.D. My Dad was 10 when a classmate of his stepped off the bus and was hit by a car--in front of the whole bus load of children. When he tells the story, he remembers, like you, the gentleness of the grown-ups. How they entire school was taken in buses to the funeral. How the parents who could came to school the next day and everyone gathered in the gym to cry and hold each other. You know, on spiritual gifts tests (like you can test such a thing!), I always test lousy on mercy. But mainly it's because I have this overwheming drive to protect the children. When I think about what's going on in Russia, or the bombings everywhere, I become so upset at the grown-ups who should know better, subjecting the children to such horrors, I just want to rip the heads off of the adults. It's just the mama bear in me, wanting to protect the cubs--all the cubs. B.D.
My Dad was 10 when a classmate of his stepped off the bus and was hit by a car–in front of the whole bus load of children. When he tells the story, he remembers, like you, the gentleness of the grown-ups. How they entire school was taken in buses to the funeral. How the parents who could came to school the next day and everyone gathered in the gym to cry and hold each other.

You know, on spiritual gifts tests (like you can test such a thing!), I always test lousy on mercy. But mainly it’s because I have this overwheming drive to protect the children. When I think about what’s going on in Russia, or the bombings everywhere, I become so upset at the grown-ups who should know better, subjecting the children to such horrors, I just want to rip the heads off of the adults. It’s just the mama bear in me, wanting to protect the cubs–all the cubs.

]]> By: John Mark http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2821 John Mark Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:05:52 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2821 Hey Bene -- Since Blogger doesn't have a "trackback" feature, I just wanted to let you know I referenced this posting and your "Pieces of People" posting on my blog (giving you the credit, of course)....Thanks again for the thought(s) they provoked... Hey Bene — Since Blogger doesn’t have a “trackback” feature, I just wanted to let you know I referenced this posting and your “Pieces of People” posting on my blog (giving you the credit, of course)….Thanks again for the thought(s) they provoked…

]]> By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2820 Bene Diction Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:43:00 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2820 I'm grateful for your kindness. I wrote colours of the fall to go with the post below; pieces of people. How many 9 year olds saw the bombings yesterday? How many were hurt, or lost someone they love? Maybe we can't be 'influential' players on a world stage, but we can pray, we can find ways to help, we can think of the realities for people in a news clip. Blogging gives us an opportunity to relate a news item to our humanity, to see beyond our experience or to share them. I believe with all that is in me that God can give us a love beyond our borders and our comforts, whether it is to the people of Russia, or Nepal, Viet Nam or Palestine or Isreal or... You just proved it. Blog on! I’m grateful for your kindness.
I wrote colours of the fall to go with the post below; pieces of people.

How many 9 year olds saw the bombings yesterday?
How many were hurt, or lost someone they love?

Maybe we can’t be ‘influential’ players on a world stage, but we can pray, we can find ways to help, we can think of the realities for people in a news clip.

Blogging gives us an opportunity to relate a news item to our humanity, to see beyond our experience or to share them.
I believe with all that is in me that God can give us a love beyond our borders and our comforts, whether it is to the people of Russia, or Nepal, Viet Nam or Palestine or Isreal or…
You just proved it. Blog on!

]]> By: John Mark http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2819 John Mark Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:05:16 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2819 Wow -- powerful stuff, Bene. Thanks for sharing that. (I mean it -- as morbid as it sounds.) I have an 8-year-old in second grade -- just about the same age as you were -- so maybe that was why it impacted me the way it did. I can't imagine him witnessing something like that, or how I would explain it. And the previous commentator was right -- you were very brave! Wow — powerful stuff, Bene. Thanks for sharing that. (I mean it — as morbid as it sounds.) I have an 8-year-old in second grade — just about the same age as you were — so maybe that was why it impacted me the way it did. I can’t imagine him witnessing something like that, or how I would explain it. And the previous commentator was right — you were very brave!

]]> By: alicia http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2818 alicia Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:41:24 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2818 Sometimes we spend so much time being brave that we forget to cry when needed. Thank you for sharing this story. I hope that you were somehow, somewhere, able to learn how and when to cry. Sometimes we spend so much time being brave that we forget to cry when needed. Thank you for sharing this story. I hope that you were somehow, somewhere, able to learn how and when to cry.

]]> By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2817 Bene Diction Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:37:33 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2817 That is very kind Deb...it was not the first time I 'had' to be brave. I didn't know any better. I pray I do now, especially when I see 'brave' bookish nine year olds. Blog on! That is very kind Deb…it was not the first time I ‘had’ to be brave.
I didn’t know any better.
I pray I do now, especially when I see ‘brave’ bookish nine year olds.
Blog on!

]]> By: Deb http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/08/31/colours-of-the-fall/#comment-2816 Deb Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:28:33 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=937#comment-2816 I'm SO sorry that you witnessed that at such a young age. It would be a difficult thing at any age but nine years old...how awful. It sounds like you were very brave. Nine-year-olds shouldn't have to be brave. The fact that you were interested in protecting other children from seeing something so disturbing makes me think that this wasn't the first time you needed to be brave. Maybe...hopefully...I am wrong. I hope at some point in your young life there was more than a text book to comfort you. I’m SO sorry that you witnessed that at such a young age. It would be a difficult thing at any age but nine years old…how awful. It sounds like you were very brave. Nine-year-olds shouldn’t have to be brave. The fact that you were interested in protecting other children from seeing something so disturbing makes me think that this wasn’t the first time you needed to be brave.

Maybe…hopefully…I am wrong.

I hope at some point in your young life there was more than a text book to comfort you.

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