*6.1. Mothering the Content*

"The awareness of the climate's changes is experienced by some students as a place of powerlessness. Here, faith becomes involved—in the community together. A student comes and sees me. And then she sobs her heart out. I go round to her and hold her. She is blessed with a nice boyfriend, the right study, a good family. We talk about her sense that she is in some state of powerlessness. She is to discover the things she has go<sup>t</sup> ... The Mother-Child-feeling appears thinking: 'Oh, you little biscuit'. The care. The young ones are to take responsibility for their lives. Evidently, of course, it is a shock, suddenly to become and be grown up. Feelings storm within them. They have to take a position on so many things— achieve endlessly, love affairs. It is a bit like Ecclesiastes. It is new experience. Then we try to break it down together into many small winds, instead of one big storm. . . . In the gospels we find plenty of love and pain and suffering . . . "
