I continue to wonder what it takes to "offer it up." Clearly I have gotten no further than to have posted the desire to know earlier in the summer. But I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with recognizing when I've been had but refusing to accept the spiritual results of defeat. In my case, that means not responding to my child's fixations and tantrums and attitude problems and general unpleasantness in kind. (Not that I fixate in response to her fixations, but I certainly can have a bad attitude.) I can't do those things alone. I have to seek strength from Our Lord for it. So I have to give him the situation either to fix or to make bearable.
I have to offer it up?
Yes, that's most certainly part of it. Now if I could just figure out the part about offering it up as a sacrifice rather than a prayer request, that would be awesome.
In the meantime, I will have to figure out how to deal with a screaming, raging, hitting, slapping, biting toddler without wanting to do the same!
But this will tide me over:
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