Stereographs by Benneville Lloyd Singley, C. W. Woodward (MET, 1982.1182.1003–.1030)
The World Must Be Peopled
By Mark Storer
Of the many losses of modern life, to me, the most profound is a loss of innocence. Our children contextualize everything from sex, to drug abuse, to violence at younger and younger ages, and naiveté seems to be a realm reserved largely for adults who lack insight into what is happening. But according to the Christian mystics the sacred still exists in the form of children and childbirth and is as valuable to our modern, harried, and hurried lives as their belief in the divine birth of Jesus.
Dr. James Finley, a clinical psychologist and teacher at the Center for Action and Contemplation, author of books on the Christian mystics and host of the Turning to the Mystics podcast, gives an analogy of the sacred nature of raising children that goes something like this: A young girl tells her parents that for Christmas, she wants a pony. She is old enough, and understands that her wish might be a little too much to hope for, but she mentions it to them anyway...
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Dr. James Finley, a clinical psychologist and teacher at the Center for Action and Contemplation, author of books on the Christian mystics and host of the Turning to the Mystics podcast, gives an analogy of the sacred nature of raising children that goes something like this: A young girl tells her parents that for Christmas, she wants a pony. She is old enough, and understands that her wish might be a little too much to hope for, but she mentions it to them anyway...
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