Me and my dad.
As I sit thinking about this journey, after getting off the phone with my father who may be experiencing the effects of kidney failure, I am moved by the experience of my profound love for him, and the understanding that the relationship we have with our parent is truly “life long”. In a flash, I experience the same bond I had with my father when I was a child; the feeling of love that passes between a two year old and their parent, so pure, so unabashed, so free and gentle and unencumbered. The way a small child might touch our face, with infinite tenderness. In a moment, love passes between parent and child an energy of exquisite goodness; piercing and opening our hearts forever. The almost fifty years between that experience and now melts away; virtually evaporates like steam would from a kettle, and what is true is unveiled once more: the eternity of our soul’s love for one another.
I imagine that before we are born, we have made soul agreements with our family members to go through a certain part of life with them and to support each other to learn lessons and to heal. Those agreements can become clouded; obscured by the challenges of the physical realm and the darkness we each have come to purify. Often we can find ourselves wondering, “What was I thinking? Why did I ever agree to this relationship?” And yet, at the end of life, much can be revealed.
Memories come unbidden and the tenderness with them-my Dad holding me among the waves, holding my hand as we walk across the street, walking me toward my beloved on my wedding day. Yes, all the rancor and the fights, the anger and the darkness is there too, but it moves to the background and what is in the center, what is shining and true is the love.
What it is important to remember is this: With God, all things truly are possible. And no matter what pain and disappointment there has been on both sides throughout our lives, the re-experiencing, or even the experiencing for the first time of love is infinitely possible up until, and even beyond, the last breath of our parent-child journey.
Take heart, dear ones, as you go through these trying and painful times. All is well on both your parts. And all is being orchestrated for the greatest healing for each of you, no matter how impossible that may seem.
With Infinite Love,
Abriete
I imagine that before we are born, we have made soul agreements with our family members to go through a certain part of life with them and to support each other to learn lessons and to heal. Those agreements can become clouded; obscured by the challenges of the physical realm and the darkness we each have come to purify. Often we can find ourselves wondering, “What was I thinking? Why did I ever agree to this relationship?” And yet, at the end of life, much can be revealed.
Memories come unbidden and the tenderness with them-my Dad holding me among the waves, holding my hand as we walk across the street, walking me toward my beloved on my wedding day. Yes, all the rancor and the fights, the anger and the darkness is there too, but it moves to the background and what is in the center, what is shining and true is the love.
What it is important to remember is this: With God, all things truly are possible. And no matter what pain and disappointment there has been on both sides throughout our lives, the re-experiencing, or even the experiencing for the first time of love is infinitely possible up until, and even beyond, the last breath of our parent-child journey.
Take heart, dear ones, as you go through these trying and painful times. All is well on both your parts. And all is being orchestrated for the greatest healing for each of you, no matter how impossible that may seem.
With Infinite Love,
Abriete
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