Part of what seems to have shaped my travels in this life that I have known has had to do with finding and/or co-creating a family. The truest meaning of family, however, calls to an experiential reality which often changes on the outside. The envelope of “relationship,” in my personal experience, has evolved to such an extent that the forms, while still commanding a modicum of importance, have been largely transcended as I have found the forms ever-changing.
After One has experienced a few ups and downs on the runways of life, one can find oneself questioning many things. The truth of some experiences can have a person pulling away from forms, while searching for a more stable point of orientation. As One does that-as I have done-one can find oneself complete without the supporting factors of forms. Interestingly enough though, upon knowing the truth of that understanding, One sometimes finds the manifestation of old and new forms (perhaps old forms made new) reflecting the same completeness that is known from within One’s own true “Being.”!
Last night, I had dinner with my son and his girlfriend. Because my son and I were not able to be together for most of his life, being together last night was utterly incredible to experience. I also found it beautifully remarkable that my son’s people skills are much like my own. He has the best of the qualities that his mother and I possessed/possess. He is very real, sensitive and encompassing of others. These are the qualities of a Divine Being. Thank you God for what You have allowed US to experience!
These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on‘comments’ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
‘Family’…this word has meant so many different things to me at various stages of my life covering numerous decades. From my birth family, extended to include my close college friends, to my ‘adopted’ spiritual family, and then to a smaller family unit brought together through Life’s ongoing changes….there has always been one constant: The Father.
With awakening consciousness, I have become increasingly aware that I am never alone, never without ‘family,’ for the Father lives within the core of my Being and all around me. As that is so, I never meet a stranger, for we are all connected in the one Father. The legacy of the Father comes out in the finest expression we know individually and collectively–characteristics such as you mentioned: being real, sensitive and encompassing, as well as respectful, loving and purposeful. The outer ‘people forms’ may come and go, but the essence of family resides in our connection with the Father of All. May we celebrate the true Father, as well as his representatives in our lives, on Father’s Day.