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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 that the universe 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, 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 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
because 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 and will learn from them, while we experience everything that
comes with family — fully and completely.
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