December 21, 2006

• I love my family! Each one is so different, so unique in their own personality and disposition, but each one so near and dear to the very heartbeat of my life. Being gone has developed in me such a keener awareness of the place that they have in my heart, and how vital they are to me being who I am. 

  And it’s here at home, with my family, that there is safety to be who I  really am, in the security where there is no judgment and no condemnation…just love and laughter, safety and comfort. For me, home has been a shelter from the outside. But it’s also the place that has prepared me to face the real world, sitting at the feet of my mother and hearing her words of wisdom, watching the steadfast example of my father, observing and learing from the failures and triumphs of my older siblings, and striving to set that same godly example to the younger ones.

  That’s how it is for me and my family. I praise the Lord for blessing me with such a wondrous family, so loving and excepting of me..the “real me,” who I am when I don’t feel the pressure of a status quo, of an image to uphold, of a mask to wear. Where all that disapears…and it’s just me and the other 9 heartbeats of my life that makes my family what it is.

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