Spiritual Families, Part 4

Good afternoon, everyone!  Are you all ready for a relaxing weekend?  It's a hot 92 degrees in GA today,  so thank heavens I went for my walk early. 
  Today I am posting about a different type of spiritual family.  This family consists of our closest friends.  For some people, this is the only real spiritual family they will ever have.  Our friends are where we find our support, our nurturing, and our strongest understanding.  We may have spent many lifetimes with these same friends.  Our friends are people who recognize and know us on some deep, basic level.  The conscious mind may not realize that this is someone we know from a past life.  The soul, however, recognizes the friend, and the love that you have felt in another lifetime for that person.
  Have you ever met someone and known instantly that this person would be important in your life?  Maybe you just felt an instant liking and felt that this person could be your friend.  That could have been your spirit speaking, and giving the conscious mind an important message.  Your spirit is saying. "Here is part of your spiritual family, here is your friend,".  It is up to you at that point to take a step towards a true friendship. 
  Groups of friends often reincarnate together, or at similar times.  These  friends may need similar experiences in life for more spiritual growth.  The group of friends have agreed on some level between lives to meet again and grow together.  They have agreed to support each other, and to be a type of spiritual family.  Some of your friends may even have been your family in another life.  If you have an older friend who has given you great support and guidance in this lifetime, that person might have been one of your parents in a past life.  They have continued that role in this lifetime, but in a different way. 
  Friends do not always continue in our lives, for many reasons.  We grow apart, we argue,  we move to different parts of the country.  If you have had a deep, long-term friendship that ends, it probably means you have worked out your karma with that person.  You may very well meet in another life, and form a friendship again.  It is important to nourish friendships, and try to mend fences when there is a problem.  If we let our spiritual friendships dwindle away, we may have to work on that karma in a future life. 
  Many people who are not close to their birth families find their deepest spiritual growth and fulfillment through their true friends.  They have formed their own families with their friends.  One person in the group may play the role of "mother", the one who always nurtures everyone else.  Another friend may take on the role of the "baby".  This is a friend who is a little spoiled but lovable.  Everyone puts up with the "baby", because they are just so darn cute!  If you feel that your friends are your true spiritual family, you might ask yourself what role you are playing in the group.  Are you the "father", who rescues the "black sheep" over and over again?  Or maybe you are playing the role of "little sister", with many male "brothers", to look after you.  These roles can and often do change and evolve in a group of spiritual friends.  You may think you simply want a friend to go out with on Saturday night, but true spiritual friends have a much higher purpose together. The reason spiritual friends form a "family" is so they can all learn and grow together.
  Wishing you all a great weekend and blessings from Psykiksister.