Love your neighbor, even when they make you mad
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2012
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
You may say this, but do you really do this? When someone doesn’t agree with you, do you make them bad, wrong, or mean, or do you accept their differences and love them anyway? Cathy and Todd discuss the importance of loving your neighbor (friend, opposing political party, etc) even when you don’t see eye to eye. They also discuss how they handled the tree in their backyard being cut down – it wasn’t easy for the adults or the kids. Trees are essential to our well being and they are great role models for giving (air, shade, beauty), grounding (roots and stability), and rebirth (seasons).
Cathy is teaching a class about calming the negative self talk and loving your BODY (part of the MIND*BODY*SPIRIT workshops) at The Dailey Method, Elmhurst. Wednesday, July 18th at NOON – bring a friend, your older kids, and a lunch! Childcare available for young kids. Call 630 832 3245 to register.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Todd Adams. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to another edition of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:09.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:10.3 | We're talking about trees and the murder of trees. |
| 0:13.9 | Oh, no, not the murder of trees. |
| 0:15.8 | The homicide. |
| 0:16.2 | Let's start talking about the beauty of trees. |
| 0:19.7 | And let's focus on what trees represent. And let's focus on |
| 0:24.4 | how reliant we are on trees and how we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be able to survive |
| 0:31.0 | on this earth without trees. And some of us will be like, oh yeah, of course, I know that. But do you? |
| 0:35.9 | Do you really give the honor and the respect that a tree deserves? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, and can you be fascinated by trees? |
| 0:43.6 | Just in the last few years, I've grown a certain sense of fascination for trees. |
| 0:48.9 | My first 30 years of my life, or maybe when I was a kid, I was fascinated, but I forgot that trees are |
| 0:54.2 | fascinating. |
| 0:55.1 | Well, do you explain what that means fascinating? |
| 0:57.8 | Well, why are they fascinating? |
| 0:59.1 | It looks like, I mean, everybody knows that trees are alive, but it doesn't move. |
| 1:02.9 | So I kind of had this assumption that it wasn't anything to be paid attention to, and it |
| 1:08.7 | actually does, and it is alive. |
| 1:11.0 | And it grows and it sheds leaves every year. |
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