Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Spiritual Families

Good morning, everybody! I am glad to be writing again today after a trip to PA.  The weather was so nice there I wanted to stay.  Pennsylvania is a truly beautiful state, well worth visiting.
  Today I am posting about spiritual families and how we choose them.  Spiritual families may be your birth family or they may be people we meet and love along the way. You may be born into a strong family unit and remain close to those family members all your life. Count yourself blessed if you were born into this type of family.  Many others are born into families that are never close, or leave those families at an early age.  Babies are given up for adoption, or children are left with grandparents to raise.  Some of us are born into abusive families, or families who never show affection or love.  Our big questions today are  why we were born into our particular family, and who is our real spiritual family?
  I will tell you immediately that I believe we choose the family to be born into well before our birth.  There are no accidents about this.  Our spirit makes this choice, guided by higher beings, or God/Goddess, before we are born.  There are always many reasons we are born into a particular family, both for our benefit and for our family.  These reasons may seem extremely obscure, particularly if we are born into a difficult or even abusive family.  There is a spiritual pattern in everything we do, even though the pattern may be difficult to discern.
  I am sure many of you are wondering why anyone would choose to be born into an abusive or unloving family.  Why would your spirit choose to suffer, experience negativity, or even be given away to another family?  If it sounds like a mistake was made, you may have to look at it differently.  The spirit chooses the family to experience certain things.  Our spirits need a chance to grow and become enlightened.  The spirit grows through both positive and negative experiences.  If we only experience the positive in life we will never have a chance to expand and move ahead.  We are not meant to suffer interminably even if we are born into an unhappy family.  We are meant to rise above the pain and grow in the spirit.
 Our family members are an integral part of our spiritual growth experience. At some point, in between lives,  there has been an agreement between our spirit and those of our family members.  We have agreed to share certain experiences, good and bad, together. For instance,  one spirit may agree,  for their own growth, to be the father, mother, sister, or brother.  Perhaps they need the experience of being the "loving one" in the family, or alternately, the "bossy sister" or "baby brother".  We come into this life with a pattern, and it is up to us whether we choose to follow that pattern.  As an example, let's say Mary is born into a family of alcoholic child abusers.  She has an extremely difficult childhood and marries young to escape her family.  It is not long before Mary has a family of her own.  Now Mary has a big spiritual choice to make: will she follow the path of her birth family and abuse her own children?  This is all she has ever known, after all. Or will Mary take a giant step in her spiritual growth and become a loving, nurturing mother?  Mary wants to be a good mother, but this is a difficult thing for her to do.  After much internal struggle, and some good therapy, Mary evolves into a very nurturing mother.  Even though it may seem that Mary was born to be an unloving and abusive parent, the opposite is actually true.  Mary was born to experience certain things in life, then choose her own path.  We are all born to choose our own path, and it is up to us which way we go.
  My next blog will also be about spiritual families.  Until then, blessings from Psykiksister.

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