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Reflecting on Spirit
Stuff happens. Every day. Good stuff, even great stuff, and challenging stuff. Caring for children sets us up for the positive, but it does not exempt us from the negative. What makes it possible to stay the course, as we do the most important work in the world, is focusing on what really matters: children. Centering ourselves every day and every moment on what is happening for children is specific, grounding, uplifting and overwhelming. Some of the children in our communities only know beautiful childhoods, where the ups and downs have manageable boundaries. But for growing numbers of the world’s children, each day is profoundly worse than anything we can imagine. So here we are, focusing on children, facing the issues, protecting our hopefulness, doing everything we can envision to nurture a childhood of possibilities for each child—this is what we have chosen.
What each of us adults attempts, or even perceives, is based on what we know, what we learn to do, where we are, who we are and who we know. We need each other to grow professionally, to be informed, to be effective and to be, ourselves, nurtured. This is ...