There are so many meanings to this one little word, with so few who truly understand it and live it each day. I watched others who think they understand the meaning that is family, but with great disappointment I finally turned my eyes away. We’ve grown up in a world that states family is; “a set of relations”; how can one argue with such logic, you should. Nowadays, one can adopt a child and that is not a relation; therefore, it is not family as we classify it, but does your heart not ache when the child leaves, or breaks when the child falls and begins to cry, does it not fill with joy when the child reaches a new height of glory in it’s own life? When you see a child that is without, what does your heart say? When we see true happiness come over the face of what we call a stranger, what does your heart say? When in the true times of need, does one ever need to ask for help, or is someone you least expect there to help? I ask, how then can that not be family, how then can you deny a relation of the souls that a simple DNA test would state; “No Relations Here”? Simply the true meaning of Family that we as a whole have forgotten that I was sent a message to tell.
For Family is a simple word that can no longer be defined as a relation as a DNA strand that holds the bonds between Mother and Daughter, Father and Son, and down the ladder that is your Family tree.
I awoke this morning on Christmas Eve, the day that my very own heart has forgotten with a simple message to tell all… “Look around for every Man and Woman, for every Child that lays upon this very Earth is your Family, that when you wake tomorrow and thank God for your day, remember it is not simply the people that stand before you that shares this moment of true happiness but those who stand upon this world we call home.”
I realized that even though my heart was not filled for this day we choose to call Christmas, it was beginning to fill with a hope that one day it would be filled again.
Family: the world which we call home holds so much that one can only say the true meaning of this word is vast and small at the same time. For this word holds no race, no colour, no species, and no judgment. It’s true meaning so states this is everyone and everything that exists within the heart of Earth and the soul of Mother Earth and the very essence of the source. For we are all the children and are all still learning.
To my Family, I give you this gift, a gift that only Family can say and not be judged upon. Love from my heart to your very own, may the love of the source and Mother Earth be with you this day and all that follow.
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June 17th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
this is a great piece, and it is great that you are able to show people what it is that they have all forgoten.