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Families can contain a fascinating grouping of personalities. Despite the
potential for so many to have similar traits, there are many different ways
to express them. As people marry into families and have children, even more
personalities enter the picture. There may be some people that we would not
choose to be related to, but that's what friends are for.
If we trust in a universe that has a higher purpose for everything, then we
must believe that family members are in our lives for a good reason. These
reasons may be easy to see and appreciate with some, but others may offer us
a challenge. With those, we can look for something we can learn or perhaps
teach. In the modern world where everyone seeks to be individuals, many move
far away from their families in an attempt to escape them. But when we've
successfully built a world around us that requires no one's help, our
families are the people who are still attached to us. We can still choose whether
or not to honor the family ties, and how to treat each other, but the fact
remains that we are energetically tied to our families.
Our families help us see where we have come from so that we may more clearly
decide where we'd like to go. If we can learn to accept our families for who
they are, then we go out into the world armed with the ability to deal with
anyone. Some families are better than others at preparing us for the world.
What we learn from our families, even if they are simply blank spots on our
family trees, becomes the basis of our identities as individuals. Rather than
denying our connections, we can choose to accept their presence in our lives.
Acceptance does not mean we have to like them; we simply acknowledge that we
are connected to them and honor that connection for like it or not, there is
a reason. When we can embrace all that they bring into our experience, we may
be grateful for all we have learned from them and have to learn, while we
experience everything that comes with family fully and completely.
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