Family
Who is family?
There is our family we have been born into
But which universal family did this one come from? Where did we come from?
What family is out there and in here, inside our heart?
We are born into this world
We experience much –
Individuality, separation, closeness, insular ways of beings
We feel emotions, moments of love
We create, we destroy
Happiness is soon followed by unhappiness
We explore all kinds of things, all ways of beings and the dualities of this world
We’ve entered a fun park and have been trying out all the rides
Some were adventures and some became misadventures
We became transfixed by what was in front of us
But all is okay
It was meant to be as it was
Our ride is slowing down now
We are coming in, back in where our family resides
All has led us back to the space
The space we know
As we tune in now
We breathe in that one breath
It travels up into our cells to open us wide
To remember – remember that we know who we are
As we breathe this breath we let go of this fun park world
Our attention is now on the stillness, the space, the feeling of not being of this world
There is something familiar in this feeling
It is an awareness that we know
There is peace in letting go
We fall backwards into cradled arms of purity
They catch our fall
It is the purity of love
With the ability to dissolve all that blocks its presence
This fineness of being is who we are
We are the one who falls and the one who catches our fall
We are the one member and the entire family of all
When we penetrate one another’s heart
Our energy awakens what it knows in the other
A warm, beautiful energy
Like having a friend with us always
Never leaving, never abandoning, never angry, never arguing, never rejecting us
Our family is with us always
It is a beautiful feeling
The love of family
To sit quietly with each other
To feel the love within
To open to it provides stability while in a world of unstable events
It is a feeling that when felt we could pull off anything we wished to explore
This energy feels like being able to fly to the moon and back
Family is space and this space is love
Sometimes subtle, so subtle we could easily miss it
It whispers to us to let go and know
To know who we are
Once recognised and felt we naturally feel the one energy of all
Our family of many is the family of one
The family whisper
“Let go and know. Let go and be. Come back into the fold and be with your family.
Now is the moment to come back in from the cold.”
We hear them whisper and so let go
At first we let go to something unknown
But as we fall into the whisper’s arms
We remember
We feel the warmth of love
We remember it so well
With this awakened heart we expand into our natural state of being
It all comes back to us now
How funny that we had forgotten
Forgotten something so simple, so beautiful and real
What is real never changes
Family is our name
And in that name is an essence like no other –
A love like no other
One love
With such tenderness of care
We draw one another close in
Our arms surround each other as we sit quietly and be
Being present in love and joy
Feeling the sun on our backs
The breeze touching our cheeks
And nature surrounding us with its motherly love
Family is like motherly love
It is the source of our being
That shines through our hearts
A love that never waivers
Never disappears
And never forgets who her children are
This is the essence that carries us together
It does not matter who we are in this world
It only matters in the truth of our heart
One to the other to another…all family
We know what is real
We are stumbling through the last remnants of all that changes
To come to the edge of what we know
To see the bright light of love in one another’s eyes
The beauty in our heart is the beauty in all
Love, a tender flower and a powerful river channelling its way through
It takes everyone with it
We follow and become that flower and river as we know the space
The space of one
To remember who we are and who we see when in front of one another.