Comments on: Moving the peg http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/ Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast - Khalil Gibran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: My top twenty posts in 2007 | Anchors and Masts http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 My top twenty posts in 2007 | Anchors and Masts Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:37:22 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-1235 [...] October 29: Moving the peg [...] [...] October 29: Moving the peg [...]

]]> By: Barney http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Barney Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:21:43 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-750 Ah, I really do know this experience. So much easier to stay where I am than to experience the pain of growth. Ah, I really do know this experience. So much easier to stay where I am than to experience the pain of growth.

]]> By: Elaine http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Elaine Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:47:42 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-744 Thank you, Tess, for this analogy (?parable) that explains so much to me in terms I can relate to. I read this post yesterday (like HeyJules, it was exactly what I needed) when my head was literally hurting from several days of stretching. Thank you, Tess, for this analogy (?parable) that explains so much to me in terms I can relate to. I read this post yesterday (like HeyJules, it was exactly what I needed) when my head was literally hurting from several days of stretching.

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Tess Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:30:41 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-743 Jules, thanks. Weight loss - hmmm - one of the great difficulties of life!! Jules, thanks. Weight loss – hmmm – one of the great difficulties of life!!

]]> By: HeyJules http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-741 HeyJules Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:25 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-741 Tess, this is exactly what I needed to read this morning! (Don't you love it when that happens???) We were talking last night in my small group why we keep backsliding at weight loss when we know what we want and we know how to get it. This really helped me put a new perspective on it and I'll be sharing it with the group next Monday. Great stuff! Tess, this is exactly what I needed to read this morning! (Don’t you love it when that happens???) We were talking last night in my small group why we keep backsliding at weight loss when we know what we want and we know how to get it. This really helped me put a new perspective on it and I’ll be sharing it with the group next Monday.

Great stuff!

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Tess Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:15:55 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-740 Thanks for this Lucy, and for the distinction. The being pounced upon is, I think, exactly the right expression. It's sometimes when I feel the most inept and hopeless after leading an Enneagram weekend that I get emails and letters saying how much difference it has made. And I definitely realised the eagles were real! Thanks for this Lucy, and for the distinction. The being pounced upon is, I think, exactly the right expression. It’s sometimes when I feel the most inept and hopeless after leading an Enneagram weekend that I get emails and letters saying how much difference it has made.
And I definitely realised the eagles were real!

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/comment-page-1/#comment-739 lucy Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:44:05 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/29/moving-the-peg/#comment-739 hmmmm. the word "backslide" really jumped out at me. not that the shoe doesn't fit, but this situation for me feels a bit different. while i really resonated with: "that breakthrough place can be threatening"...the battle i have felt recently feels much more like one coming from outside of me rather than an inner battle which i am quite familiar with and which is what i think you are speaking to in this post. a friend described my situation like this: "it sounds like you suffer from the classic case of 'a threat to evil' disease! It normally seems to come after a tremendously blessed event where souls are set free from 'disease' and you are involved in that healing process. It's as though all their diseases ball up and pounce on You.!" i have definitely felt "pounced upon", so this leaves me wondering if there is a difference between when we are standing in the gap or battling for others and/or trying to stand firm (i.e. not backslide) for ourselves? yikes...so much to consider!! (and just in case you might be wondering...the eagles this time around were REAL and not simply metaphorical :-) poetic or not, pegs and rubber bands work quite well for this former accountant's brain. always delighted to hear your perspective! hmmmm. the word “backslide” really jumped out at me. not that the shoe doesn’t fit, but this situation for me feels a bit different. while i really resonated with:
“that breakthrough place can be threatening”…the battle i have felt recently feels much more like one coming from outside of me rather than an inner battle which i am quite familiar with and which is what i think you are speaking to in this post. a friend described my situation like this:

“it sounds like you suffer from the classic case of ‘a threat to evil’ disease! It normally seems to come after a tremendously blessed event where souls are set free from ‘disease’ and you are involved in that healing process. It’s as though all their diseases ball up and pounce on You.!”

i have definitely felt “pounced upon”, so this leaves me wondering if there is a difference between when we are standing in the gap or battling for others and/or trying to stand firm (i.e. not backslide) for ourselves? yikes…so much to consider!!

(and just in case you might be wondering…the eagles this time around were REAL and not simply metaphorical :-) poetic or not, pegs and rubber bands work quite well for this former accountant’s brain.

always delighted to hear your perspective!

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