{"id":2209,"date":"2019-02-25T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakinguprevolution.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:27:09","slug":"mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/mud\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Out of the Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s been raining all week here in Nashville\u2026<\/div>\n
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The kids were let out of school early one day because of floods. Many high schoolers drive, and the school district wanted to make sure they got home safely. My son Evan Amadeus (being an adventurer, like his parents) took a few friends to drive by our small Harpeth river to experience the rising waters. An extraordinary event on a regular ol\u2019 Wednesday is always an opportunity to feel something different and widen your perspective and it\u2019s fun, too. (It had stopped raining and they were just behind our subdivision, so it was very safe.)<\/div>\n
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Evan safely pulled into a friendly neighbor\u2019s driveway – and parked his little car off to the side a bit so as not to block the entrance. In the grass. A very soft, flooded grass – the kind with dirt (when dry) underneath.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMama, I got stuck in the mud. What should I do?\u201d Evan told me via his phone. \u201cWait till it dries\u201d I joked, after I figured out he was safe. \u201cI\u2019ll be right there.\u201d I grabbed my coat and got my friend David to help us. One of Evan\u2019s wheels had dug deep into the mud as the boys tried to use a plank, their brains and what they learned in physics class – all factors that would let them work from a distance and stay clean.<\/div>\n
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And sometimes that does work.<\/div>\n
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But this time, it didn\u2019t. David and I arrived, assessed the situation and got to work. I was excited. This was such a great safe adventure and a learning opportunity \ud83d\ude42 The plank was not helping anymore, so David shovelled out some dirt around the wheel, told one of the boys to rev up the engine and pushed the car for extra support. I yelled \u201cEvan push with David; it\u2019s only mud!\u201d Mud splashed all over them and the car was out.<\/div>\n
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Sometimes the only way out from being stuck is to get in there, unafraid to get all muddy.<\/b><\/div>\n
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When it\u2019s a wheel and mud on a day when school is out, it\u2019s even fun.<\/div>\n
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But when it\u2019s an\u00a0emotional pain<\/b>\u00a0we are stuck in, no one likes to get into the \u201cmud.” We all desire to stay at a distance and use some magic tool to get us out. We all hope to stay unscathed by the emotional pain so we don\u2019t get in deep. We find a quick tool to help us get out (medicine, or a distraction) – and sometimes that works\u2026\u00a0But if we don\u2019t get in there and work with the pain, we often dig ourselves even deeper.<\/b><\/div>\n
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Evan had called me when he realized he couldn\u2019t deal with the situation by himself. He knew he could trust me – I wouldn\u2019t yell at him, and I would come to help.<\/div>\n
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Just like Evan,\u00a0when we find ourselves stuck in emotional pain and don\u2019t know how to get out of it, the best thing to do is to call someone who loves us.<\/b>\u00a0Someone who won\u2019t tell us it\u2019s our fault that we ended up in a bad place, who will not be afraid to get all muddy with us, and who will come and be our support.<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t be stuck in the emotional mud. Don\u2019t spin your wheels\u2026 Call someone, get help, get all muddy if you have to –\u00a0working through emotional pain will hurt more at first, but once you are out, you will know two things: where not to “park” any more, and how to get out if you get stuck again.<\/b><\/div>\n
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