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A Course In Miracles says; "In every relationship, in every moment, we teach either love or fear". I certainly agree with that and have experienced both. It is interesting how I look at my family and who I consider my family to be. There's my immediate family; wife, kids, parents. My extended family; aunts, uncles, cousins, on and on down the family tree. There is my work family, my belief family,(religion or otherwise), my friend family, my city family. Well, you see what I am getting at, I have a very big family(we all do). Oh, and there is my state, country and world family as well.There is my family who have passed on in physical life, but are very much alive in consciousness. It's easy to forget them, well some of them, others are always nudging me and laughing with me. I can't see them anymore, but I can sense them from time to time depending on my thoughts and focus. I have no fear about where they are or what they are doing. I know they are wrapped in love and they are sending themselves to me in that form. That part of my family is all about love and sharing it. Their physical deaths only enhanced their connection to me. I just have to be aware of it. I do that by thinking about them, some tidbit from my memory that brings a smile to my face. I feel them smiling back at me. This form of love is always there for me to experience. It brings me to a place of wellness and peace.My physical family on the other hand, is certainly a contrast. I love them, but we are all here to learn lessons and grow. We all do it in different ways. As a father, I have always felt love for my kids, but I felt fear for them as well. I wanted them to learn my way and if they didn't, well something bad could happen. I knew best. I am the adult. Of course my thoughts only created an element of fear and that blocked my love. My parents and extended family did the same thing. I loved them and believed they knew best and if I didn't listen, I would experience something bad. I was in fear, I was scared and that blocked my love. My work, city, state, country and world families all have love within them and want to share that love, but each one of those families is experiencing life through their own beliefs, and at times they are not mine. Immediately the reaction is fear for them or for me, which blocks the love we all want to express. In fear, I have learned lessons. Fear only creates more fear and it brings some of its family with it. In fear my thoughts are distorted and I am a different self. My growth is stopped by my thoughts of fear. Suddenly my families start to break down. Now anger and hatred join the fear and I am separated from my love of family. Fear has created another family and we don't know each other. It's me against them. Love has been interpreted to mean something else. I can't love him or her, if he or she believes this or that, which is not my belief. The world within me has been cut in two, by fear.With separation, comes judgement, control and low self esteem. An illusion created by not accepting and seeing love in all life. The world and all that's in it, is what I perceive it to be. It is my choice to unite all my families in love, with that same love I feel for my departed family. I can choose to allow each soul to experience and express themselves in their own way. I can learn to grow from that knowledge in love and understanding. My thoughts create my world of families. I see them for what they are, a mirror of myself so that I can evolve into that grander version of myself.
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Hal Manogue is a poet and author of Short Sleeves A Book For Friends. Insightful thoughts for the 21st century. His 2006 Collection and 2007 Collection are available in bookstores and online. Visit hal's website: www.shortsleeves.net or Blog: halmanogue.blogspot.com/ for more information about his work and life.
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