Blessing of Acceptance

Dear Nursery Families,

I had the fortune or misfortune to have my car broken into last weekend and my luggage stolen.  While it was stressful at the time, my window has been repaired, and I find I can live without or replace (with some help from insurance) other items in the car.  The event helped inspire me to listen to the words of Eckhart Tolle a lot and to think about his stories of monks or wise men who accepted tragedy or blessings with equanimity and a sameness of bearing.

In this state of mind, I thought of an article I often distributed to parents called, "The Blessing of Acceptance," from Wendy Mogel's book The Blessings of a Skinned Knee.  Waldorf teacher and lecturer Jack Petrash holds Mogel's book in high esteem, and has read from it at talks I have attended.  Her chapter on acceptance can be really helpful, I find, when things don't work out as perfectly or as smoothly as they might in an ideal sense.  I hope some of you find it helpful when the flow of home or school life encounters rocks and bumps.

Here is the article.

With warmth and light,

William Geoffrey Dolde