{"id":460,"date":"2009-01-06T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-01-06T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:20:00","slug":"the-epiphany-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany&#8230; resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was laying in bed last night&#8230; I realized that perhaps it isn&#8217;t about forgiveness.  Perhaps it is simply about acceptance.<br \/>Acceptance of my mom for who she is&#8230; the good, bad and ugly.   So she wasn&#8217;t the mom I needed her to be&#8230; so save me from the big bad wolf&#8230;  but she did the best she could, I suppose.  I mean, most parents will do their best.<\/p>\n<p>So, suddenly it isn&#8217;t about being let down and needing to forgive&#8230;   That brings up a bigger issue&#8230; if you read the comments on forgiveness.  But rather, acceptance.  I have to simply (or not so simply) accept my mom for all she is or isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I feel lighter&#8230; a little bit more free.   Only she has to live with her life.  I have to live with some of the consequences of that life chosen but then I get to move from that point to claim or live out my own destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Does this make sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was laying in bed last night&#8230; I realized that perhaps it isn&#8217;t about forgiveness. Perhaps it is simply about acceptance.Acceptance of my mom for who she is&#8230; the good, bad and ugly. So she wasn&#8217;t the mom I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}