THINK ONE STEP AHEAD
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu,
“peacemaking” at pepinsky.blogspot.com
April 10, 2014
My wife Jill and I have just
survived the most intense moment in our 41 years together, me (in)voluntarily
committed to a mental hospital for what turned out to be exactly 30 days,
emerging rested and at peace with myself and my body, Jill emotionally
exhausted. I have gotten through it with
minimal effort by simply following one peacemaking rule I had long embraced
even before I became a volunteer victim-offender mediator in Bloomington,
Indiana, in 1997: Think first of how I feel, then pause long enough to pick a
way of expressing it that reassures others that I am perfectly safe to be with. Invariably, living by this one simple rule, I
feel safe in any situation, period. Love
and peace--hal
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