Vincent's Viewpoint

by Elizabeth Ann Childers-Bennett

It was October 2000 and Vincent, my 10-year-old grandson, had recently completed the ReSurfacing workshop.

A few weeks after the course I went to visit my daughter, Rachael, and my grandchildren. Before dinner one night I needed to go to the store to pick up a few things. Vincent asked if he could come along.

We were soon on our way. After a few moments he told me that he had been acting very badly toward his mother, and he wondered if there was some Avatar thing that he could do. He knows that I am a licensed Avatar Master and thought that I might have some helpful hints. “Because I don’t like the myself when I act like that,” he added. I asked him if he remembered the Walk for Atonement exercise. He said that he did and would like to do it as soon as we returned home.

He also asked, “Nana, can I get her a Hershey bar and some Dr. Pepper and maybe a card? She’d really likes that. I feel like I want to make it up to her somehow, but I don’t quite have enough money. Can you loan me some?” I agreed to help him out and made the suggestion that the card come from his own heart, because, although the cards in the store are nice, sometimes they just don’t say what our own heart needs to say. He agreed.

Upon returning to the house he went straight to the backyard and did his walk. A little while later he came to find me. Positively glowing he said, “I feel much better.

I am going to go make my card right now!” Later, coming out of his room, he asked, “Nana, do you think I should give Mom the card right now?”

I replied, “Well, Vincent, she is preparing dinner and is sort of busy just now. Does there feel like there might be a better time to give it to her?”

He answered, “Oh, yeah, maybe at bedtime. Or maybe if I just put it under her pillow with the Hershey bar, she can find it there before she goes to sleep.” He continued, “Since Mom has had ReSurfacing too, she’ll understand what I’ve done, right Nana?”

With tears in my eyes I said, “Yes, and I love you, Vincent.”

Vincent has found a new way of handling some of the daily things that come up for our children. I am so thankful that I listened to him and my intuition when he asked me if he could take The Avatar Course.

Thank you, Vincent, for being a teacher to me.

A very grateful Nana (a.k.a. Elizabeth Ann Childers-Bennett), Seymour, Missouri

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