9.2.11

Wednesday Feb 9 2011-Family-- SOM Magazine

``The Soul is always outside the game of life, a Seer, not a player.``--- BKS Iyengar

" Every act in the life of the individual is that such an individual may express himself." SOM Ernest Holmes

 It is said that you choose yoru friends, but not your family. this may be true in a human sense, but perhaps at some deeper soul level there is a degree of choosing our families.

The soul's wisdom in incarnating in human form surely includes a matching of family with the soul's path. Maybe we don't have a perfect family from the point of view of human comfort or ease, but perhaps we have had the perfect family for the soul's evolution. Perhaps the so-called "imperfections" of our families have created just the perfect opportunities to burnish the soul in some way that advances us, that ultimately gives us opportunities to work on particular aspects of ourselves.

And perphaps, if used consciously, the very imperfections of our families are perfect for the honing of particular gifts or ways that we express in the world. Life is so good to us, as the divine order of it all reveals itself and we see that everything serves the highest path.

Some may appear to have what we consider the perfect family with many of the ideals that conform to our ideas of family. Yet there is no such thing as a perfect family, only the perfect family for each individual. As for the latter, I would suggest that each one of us has the absolutely perfect family to support the soul's journey of unfolding into oneness.

Affirmation:

I embrace my family of origin. I accept any imperfections of my family as the perfection of my soul's highest calling.

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