Recently we have been faced with the challenge of an aging parent who lives far away and that requires more and more of our time, patience, understanding, care and forgiveness. This situation will be a struggle and will take us down the road of evaluating what our personal obligation is to our families and to ourselves.
How far are we willing to go for the people who share our last names?
Have we healed the old hurts from our childhoods?
When, if ever, do you choose to turn your back on someone that you don’t like but that has a piece of your heart regardless?
Families are such complicated emotional entities and we each have so much vested in layers of memories, emotions and lessons that come from those who shared our childhood. Facing a tough family situation is never easy and when it is a family member that you have been estranged from it can be even harder.
I’m not sure what the out come will be for our family but I will say to any of you that may be facing similar family struggles; care for yourselves and try to forgive the past that you have been holding onto.
Holding onto those old hurts is like holding onto the sharp edge of a knife. At some point you will slip and be cut but if you let go in the forgiveness, the knife will simply fall away.
Blessed be.
Love and light,
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