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My friend Kay in Kitsap County, Wa., has a clear understanding of her mission in life. It is to
turn the hearts of the children to their parents,
turn the hearts of the parents to their young,
turn the hearts of the people to each other,
turn the hearts of the people to their spiritual understanding.
It seems a gigantic undertaking, yet perhaps the most crucial of tasks facing humanity. For it is primarily within the family we learn unconditional love. Regrettably, but perhaps necessary to a degree to prepare ourselves for what historically and still is "Out There," we also learn about fear. We'll talk more about that at the next update of this newsletter, in about two weeks' time.
There seem to be some fundamental misunderstandings which result in divisions between people, particularly in families. I would like to explore some of them, mainly because family is a powerful reference point for choices a
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person can make to live a full and healthy, purposeful life or to go the other direction, a life of self-centeredness creating unnecessary hardship, NOT-LOVE, for ourselves and others.
Family can be and ought to be the source of nourishment and support for its members. It is through family actions and interactions we best learn about ourselves...why we are the way we are, how to move forward to find in-depth peace, love and joy and so, ultimately, freedom. Often the family is unable to fulfill the latter function and members must then find the strength to move on, outside of family contact. When this sad state of affairs occurs there is not only personal loss, it is a statement of conceived hopelessness for planetary peace. If we cannot resolve our own internal struggles and family difficulties, how can we expect international, even intertribal, conflicts to heal?
If you are not interested in healing family rifts, please stop reading here. It may indeed seem impossible. But
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