Feedback from Gap Year Subscribers
My thanks to you who send me your thoughts and reflections. Here are a few:
Yes ...another timely Reality Check Tricia! I didn't know of the leg break, but you have always been the best 'Get Up & Go' persons I have ever known.
Your fall-story recalled one of mine where after missing a little jump up to the curb. I received a standing ovation !!!! The absolutely best fall of my life.... Still puts a smile in my life!!!😉 - D
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Thank you Trish for another insight that we can all use. Sending hugs. -J
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Feedback from “Walk Out of the room:
I’ve been doing this for about a year. First off, I’m my own worse enemy. Like you the rambling thoughts of what did I do wrong? What did I say? How can I get them to like me better? And on and on for days. I pray not to do this anymore because as they’ve moved on, I’m still in the moment… I consider more where I put my time and energies. Some areas I find that I thought I should be is not where I should be.
I’ve walked out of the room as well. My own family and politics. I’ve said I don’t want to hear it. When it continued, I went home. The discussion was going to separate us and I did not want that to happen with my loved ones. - C
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Isn’t it grand, Trish, that we can look back and see where we were at the time? But more importantly, what, where, and how we have become who we are now? And it all culminates into what we can look forward to and what we will become in the future. What is our end goal in hope—to be living more in the Spirit! --C
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Thanks for sharing, Trish, on this vital topic!
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Feedback on “RECONTEXTUALIZING”:
Trish, I am reading your Gap Year as a woman who went through challenges in the workforce. I found the reflection on your recontextualizing of your life and the challenges an interesting read. If you are just writing for you it doesn’t matter where you start. If you are writing for women who have been in the workforce and not have no job and are in a gap year, perhaps tell your story at the beginning as an introduction: the death of your first husband, struggles with raising a child in the mountains, and no money and little help, how you met Dale, and having another child… how your life and your job moves you to recontextualize. I like the humanizing concept. I am still reading but wanted to give my opinion so far while thinking about it. You think you’re just writing for you? I am thinking you might want to do something more with it.-E
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Thanks for your GAP reflections! St. ‘Teresa’ is who I chose as my confirmation name. Unfortunately, I did not live up to her virtue in my early years. Working on it now, perhaps a bit late… But I’m better now than I was then, and ‘to be more’ in the future—God willing! You are a blessing to me. - C
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I have taken this time to allow (the Spirit’s) voice to guide me. With my time on this earth shortening, I pray that the moments I have left will be used wisely and fruitfully… and not necessarily what interests only me. Using my gifts are important, but I’d rather encounter a challenge in a new aspect of being. I desire ‘to be’ in an essential place of need, where I am blessed with the opportunity to make a difference. I don’t have to see the results, just be shown a path to follow. Thanks for this process. Blessings on your journey. -C