Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Happy 3rd of January, my friends, I have a lovely passage to read to you today from my book,

Let It Be Easy.

I hope you have this book already, especially if you are a podcast fan. I just think

you would love it. And it also makes a great book as a gift too. This is the feedback that I've gotten

over the years. I'm reading to you today, chapter 120. Now each chapter is just one to two pages

and it's called see the child in everyone.

This allows me to be sooth, to be patient, to be calm, to be kind and to be forgiving.

Okay, and these are all gifts that you give yourself.

Here goes.

If you ever feel like you need help forgiving or even just liking someone,

try this. Picture them as a kid. Imagine how they looked, their little face, the little hands

and feet, shy, curious, not knowing everything. See the innocent humanness in them. This is who you're still

dealing with now, just taller and older, and probably harden and disappointed by life to some

degree. Do you need to do this with your parents, perhaps, or other loved ones in your life?

My mum was the last person to see my dad alive. Near the end of his life, he was alone and

scared, and he called her and asked her to come to him. She got straight on the train without even

brushing her hair to be with him. She said that in that

moment she forgot the years of physical and emotional pain. She thought about one thing. The five-year-old

sensitive Peter, who is shipped to boarding school and ran away to see his mom, just for a minute he pleaded before the police sent him

back without obliging him. My mum kissed my dad's forehead for the last time and later told me,

Susie, I didn't kiss a dying man. I kissed a five-year-old boy who wanted his mom. Can you see your mom and dad as young

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