A Family of Unconditional Love

By the grace of the Goddess I have been blessed with an exceptional family!
A family that is no where close to normal, who has had more than its fare share of drama, but who has, no matter what, loved each other unconditionally.

The term unconditional love has become a bit of a trendy catch phrase in the last few years but to actually live this philosophy is another story. My Mum and Dad taught me the truth of unconditional love from day one and still to this day my Dad reminds me of its tough reality.

To love a person in the moment is easy. As we are loving beings at our core but to love a person when they are at their darkest is another challenge all together.

Since my Dad was in his twenties he has been taking in those with no where to go and teaching them to heal themselves and to love no matter how broken their hearts and souls may be.
He has taken in street kids that no one else would take, he has taken in hitch hikers who didn't have a place to hitch to, he has shown kindness to his most ruthless business rivals and he has provided love to each and everyone of them.
Many of those that he has helped have turned on him in their difficult times only to be forgiven, made to analyze their own life lessons and then accepted back in to our family fold.

I think of my Mum as being a little tougher as she was (she passed back to Spirit 15 years ago) very protective of those she loved and had any one, out side her family fold, hurt someone within her family she would pounce like a tigress protecting her cub. But in truth she was just as forgiving and opened her heart and home to all who needed her.

To truly understand this family story of mine you would need to understand the family a little so I will try to explain our weird, wonderful, and blissfully dysfunctional clan:
My Mum and Dad married in their twenties after meeting through my maternal Grandfather who my Dad was working for. My Mother became pregnant and so they got married. Most would think of this as an unplanned pregnancy but after chatting with my Aunt (Mum's sister) I learned that it was far from unplanned (at least my Mums part!).
Within a short time the marriage dissolved due to irreconcilable differences or perhaps I should say similarities.....they both like to sleep with men :-)

Even though my parents marriage ended, the love never did. They stayed best friends from day one, talking on the phone, raising their daughter (me), and always sharing an incredible love. Nothing can represent this love more than my Dad and his partner allowing my Mum and I to live with them when my Mum fell on hard financial times. We all lived together on and off over the last few years of my Mums life and when it was time for my Mum to come home to die after a battle with cancer it was my Dad's house she went to. Everyday I would read to her and everyday my Dad would bath her and hold her hand. My two dads, my Mum and I made up a perfect family unit and I feel very blessed to this day for all three of my parents. A stunning and spectacular Mum as well as two amazing and unique Dads.

I am also blessed with five Brothers all of whom are much older and are the result of the love extended to those who needed it the most. My parents and then my Dad after the divorce ran a group home for kids who society had washed their hands of. They were the children of drug dealers, prostitutes and criminals and many had already racked up a reputation with the police by the tender age of 13 yrs. Five of these boys became part of our family and now have families and careers of their own. They learned to trust, to make a better life for themselves and most importantly LOVE.
Not all of the boys who came into the group homes have been as successful by societies standards as my brothers but they did experience love and learned to take care of each other and that is an amazing success.
The borders of our family extend out around far more than just our blood relatives. We have opened up our family to all who wanted to be a part of it and this diverse tapestry has enriched all of our lives, especially mine.

Unconditional Love - A messy, difficult, and sometimes trying philosophy to live by but it is delicious in its variety of flavors and I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Everyones family has a story and I would love to hear about some of yours so please feel free to share them with me as I have shared mine with you.

Blessed Be , Love and Light