Reflections

I have been attending a wonderful weekly class which focuses on Preserving & cherishing your family history.  I hesitate to even call it a class as what it offers me could never be found in a formal class setting.  What the past 16 weeks have been for me is a spiritual feeding & life changing perception of what I felt family history was all about. 
I can say that "My heart has truly been changed". 

You know the feeling after you have been through a particularly challenging period of your life & your blessed with the opportunity to look back with fresh eyes, experience and maturity.  You now have the ability to connect all those seemingly un-connectible dots and see how they all relate to each other.  That is what this class did for me, it has offered me a grander view of the delicately interconnected aspects of family history in our pre-life, earth life & life after death.

Everything is about relationships & families!

Everything we did before, everything we do here & all we will do after this life is built on the family unit.  Family units start with an individual and increase in number in beautifully organized rings which radiate out from that individual.  Just like ripples in a pond after a pebble is tossed in, Perfect order as the ripples radiate outward creating larger and larger circles.  The family unit has always been and will always be.  We each belong to a something so much bigger than ourselves.

I realize now that I have a responsibility to my family members of past, present & future.  The more information & understanding we have about our family members & ourselves and the more information we preserve so that each family member is remembered, gives us each the opportunity to know & love them as we never would otherwise.

The great value comes when each person becomes a recognizable individual, connected by delicate family ties.  When we form true interpersonal relationships & our "Hearts" become connected. Our "Hearts" are changed.  Our "Hearts" are turned toward those family units.
We become better individuals, family members & members of society when we look at each others and stop thinking that what we do or who we are is inconsequential.

Each persons life has eternal value, each persons life send out ripples that effect the eternities.  We may never know the  volume of space a life occupies, we get a tiny glimpse of it when someone we love passes from this life.  Our thoughts of them occupy great amounts of space in our thoughts and actions as we try to fill the void left in our world by their demise.

So thank you Ann Lewis.....for your ability to connect with & speak to my spirit.  I will be forever changed by a 16 week class on family history that I really wasn't that excited about attending & pretty sure it was too much to ask for in my busy life.