I remember those days of grade twelve, my senior year of high school, facing that, almost daily, question,
What do you want to do after high school?
My response was always quick, always confident … for fear that a delay in my response would give my true response away.
Although I was not embarrassed by my dream, I knew it would not be received with seriousness or respect. I knew it would be viewed as archaic, uninspiring or a waste of a mind.
My future dreams were reserved for something rather … common.
What I dreamed of for my future was marriage and children. All that I knew that I wanted to be was a wife and mom.
Now, twenty-odd years later, I can look back with satisfaction and pleasure that my original, primal dream came true.
There has been no other more challenging, thrilling or educational experience!
Today is, in some Canadian provinces, Family Day. Family Day was created to give specific time for families to be together … it also just happens to fall about the midpoint of New Years Day and Easter, giving the break of a day off for many.
Of families, Pope John Paul XXIII said,
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Though families are many different shapes and sizes, they usually share two similarities, blood and love.
Blood, being the biological connection point, and love, that invisible thing with is so obvious when present (and when absent).
Ironically, it is those two elements, of blood and love, which bring us into the biggest family of all … that being the family of God.
Jesus Christ, in John 3:34-35, tells us,
“A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another:
just as I have loved you,
you are also to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.”
May we all celebrate our families, and celebrate them with great love.
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