Romans
12:9 - Love
must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Romans
13:10 - Love
does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
(I
couldn’t help it this called for two verses)
I
love how La Familia sounds it rolls off the tongue – And it moves my heart –
The Family.
I
remember when I was in (and I continue to be) in my learn more about Nene (ME) stage
aka finding myself. I asked my Mom a
question. I don’t remember the motivation
behind the question, like if I had heard it asked in some movie or book that I
had listened to (even though I love to write I actually listen to audio books
more than I read)
I
asked my Mom what she thought I couldn’t live without. I’m thinking she’s going to say something
deep like, my righteous, holy daughter of great spirit – I know that you cannot
live without Jesus. (Lol I’m so, not
deep and I can only spell righteous because of spell check and my spirit is best defined as free) or maybe she would go simple and say girl as
much as you eat, I’m thinking you can’t live without restaurants! Heck even maybe she would say I can’t live
without friends, because my friendship circle is tight – older (not in age don’t
be sucking yawls teeth) But in years I
have friends who I have known for over thirty years. I didn’t use any names sister girls let’s let
everyone assume we met when we were born in the hospital and the circle has
been going strong ever since.
My
Mom, however shocked me by saying FAMILY.
It was shocking because this conversation had taken place after I had
moved over four hundred miles away from family a few years prior to this
conversation, to a town where I had/have
no blood family. Like most children of
parents we instantly think, WOW my mom/dad still doesn’t know me. Don’t get me wrong I love my family but
clearly I was living without them around me.
Wisdom
trumps pride and bravado every time and I laugh as I think back because she was
and is so very right. I live many miles
away from my family, but I actively seek their relationship through phone
calls, sometimes cards and Facebook talk.
I hop in the Echo for birthdays, holidays or just because my soul needs
to touch home. There is something so
wonderful about walking into my mommy’s house.
The smells the feel the memories cover me. They make all the bad stress of work life and
responsibility drift away and I find myself at peace and I feel so safe as I
open her refrigerator (Maybe because I didn’t buy anything in it) and I know all my favorite things are waiting for me (hint mom PLEASE make the cheese salad!)
I’ve
heard my pastor and I’ve read (listened) to a couple of books about people who
have had near death experiences. They
all talk about love and relationships when they visited the next level. I don’t know whether my pastor has ever had a
near death experience, but he has strongly expressed his belief that the one
thing you do take with you in the next life (after life heaven next energy
etc.) is relationships. So although I
love my iPod, my Samsung phone and my really super cute shoes that people
compliment me on all the time. If these
items were even able to last forever I won’t be taking them to Heaven to text
other people, however I will take the love and relationships that I have here
to Heaven. Love is so much more than a
feeling/emotion it is an energy an organic living thing – The greatest
gift.
The
joy that I have when I sit back at a family reunion and look at my
family or on Thanksgiving when we all pack into a relative’s home and talk
about Thanksgivings past and childhood memories. So Mom yes you were right – Who Knew (Fine
you knew) Family be it blood or selected. Those souls you count on those souls that
bring you un-materialistic (pretty sure I just made that word up),
unconditional love. La Familia is
eternal, love it and protect it as such.
Through the good and the bad.
Through the sick and the healthy.
Through the success and the failures.
The family, the relationships they are forever.
To
the Family – To Love – You are eternal!
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