To GeorgeSon on To Adriane on Family approval, etc BEST YET TOO

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GeorgeSon wrote:

 

>> Why do we consider our birth parents

>> to be our real family?

>> ...Did we chose these "parents/brothers/sisters/

>> aunts/uncles/cousins. Some of us even

>> had STEP-PARENTAGE.

 

>> ...Amma alone is our parent.

>> ...All Amma devotees are my

>> family because I chose AMMA...

 

 

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon ~ you have said so many important things here, and it is

interesting because there are some traditions that say we don't choose our

parents but we can choose our friends. And then there are other traditions, some

Eastern, some Western, that say we have chosen, before we took human form, all

of our experiences and who we would have them with and that is part of our

growth and evolution in Spirit. Even in Hinduism, with the idea of karma, there

would be some thought of that affecting life circumstances.

 

When my father died, I could not go back to Maryland for the funeral, so I

held my own ritual for him on the banks of the river I was living on at the

time. He, like me, interestingly enough, though we never connected on this with

each other, was very interested in Native American culture. So I made a small

medicine wheel for him by the lake, and I used all the natural things that

were around to make it beautiful. My father also loved the ocean and boating,

so

I felt he would like this. I prayed many times before and after his death

that when he takes human form again he will be born into a loving family that

has appropriate structure and boundaries so that within that context his

creative spirit will soar and find expression.

I have made the same prayer for myself.

 

Our families of origin do affect us by how they treat and interact with us,

and then we write the stories of our lives by how we are affected by and

choose to deal with that. Yet, as you say, these are our earthly parents only,

so

we honor them. In truth we are all children of God/dess, Creator, Spirit,

Amma, Shree Maa ... by what ever name we use to articulate the Truth of

something larger than and yet inclusive of ourselves. And so we are all

sisters/brothers, fathers/mothers, partners/lovers in this circle dance of life

on this

earth plane. Sometimes we dance in joy; sometimes we dance, pounding the

ground in our frustration or rage; sometimes we dance alone; sometimes we dance

hand in hand, but however we are dancing (and now I'm getting "snapshots" of

all the different ways people dance when they are around Amma), we are dancing

the great sacred dance of being.

 

Jai Ma ~ Linda