Family members do not always do what you would like or expect. Why should they? You chose each other for the growth opportunities you would provide to the other. If all of you were perfectly loving and compatible, why then you would have to go and find someone else to push your buttons so that you could practice unconditional love.
We hope you read our words with humor, for humor is what is often necessary in dealing with family matters. Humor and compassion, for all of you see life from a different perspective depending on the seat you have been occupying in this theater in the round you call life.
Same family or not, that seat is different from that of others in your family, so when differences arise, realize that their perspective may differ from yours and love them anyway. You may no longer share a room or a roof, but you do share a lineage, and there is a reason for that.
I took the time to really think this through, and realised I had been thinking about a family situation this a.m. whilst I am not completely happy with how it played out, it made me feel less sad and guilty about a close one who has passed, maybe their way of explanation????? thank you Sanaya
As we examine our lives, do we only see what has affected us or do we also see how we have impacted others, for good, not just when we could have loved better? Or does that even matter?
It matters a lot, Dorothy! Every thought and action that we take that impacts others is registered in our soul. Those filled with love shine the brightest!