Family healing is what I fast and pray and hope for.
I live with the same "ifs" and "maybes" many other people do.
Eternity is an unbridgeable chasm and looks like permanent loneliness.
If my children and I have only this life and nothing beyond it,
then I must be sure to love them all I can and hope that they will understand
that there is something better to reach for than a world where all is about surface
rather than what's on the inside.
I don't ever want to put my kids through the experience
of having a stepparent who does not love them.
I also will not afflict someone with overload.
I don't intend to be someone I'm not to get someone to like me.
The experiences passed on by family members who have passed on tell me
that unless feelings are right for everyone involved, they aren't right at all.
In the ends of our lives, memories and the feelings that go with them are all we have.
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