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August 2008 
The Big Family
Posted on Mar 3rd, 2008
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How nice it is to see the sun. It is in he fifties today and the sun it shining. I just returned from a trip to see my two daughters who live in Michigan. It was a whirl wind trip and those are always rough. Ten hours in the car each way with one day to visit.
This trip was so my daughters could throw a wedding shower for my son and his intended. Although we all love each other and wish we could spend more time together, there were a few frayed nerves as well. It’s hard to have four families under one roof and not get in each others way a bit. The trick is to give each other space to be who we are as human beings.
It reminds me of a wonderful book I am reading currently called Boomeritis, by Ken Wilber. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. It is about, as far as I can see, how we need to progress beyond the people we are, living in a level of development that is non-integrating of other peoples. In other words, we’ll kill each other if we don’t learn to get along. We need to come to a point where we understand that it is all right to be different, that each level of development, each point of view has something to contribute. No it won’t be one hundred percent correct, and neither is our own.
In this global world we live in, where we are so involved in each other’s lives, there must be a level of understanding and integrating of each other or we will regress and come to a point where all we want to do is annihilate each other. We must come to see that our religions and our philosophies can be used to bring us closer together instead of further apart.
In a family, do we not have to give a little in order to get along? The same is true in the world. We must become integral is we are to live. We must rise above our narrowness in order to have a real sense of God.
This trip was so my daughters could throw a wedding shower for my son and his intended. Although we all love each other and wish we could spend more time together, there were a few frayed nerves as well. It’s hard to have four families under one roof and not get in each others way a bit. The trick is to give each other space to be who we are as human beings.
It reminds me of a wonderful book I am reading currently called Boomeritis, by Ken Wilber. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. It is about, as far as I can see, how we need to progress beyond the people we are, living in a level of development that is non-integrating of other peoples. In other words, we’ll kill each other if we don’t learn to get along. We need to come to a point where we understand that it is all right to be different, that each level of development, each point of view has something to contribute. No it won’t be one hundred percent correct, and neither is our own.
In this global world we live in, where we are so involved in each other’s lives, there must be a level of understanding and integrating of each other or we will regress and come to a point where all we want to do is annihilate each other. We must come to see that our religions and our philosophies can be used to bring us closer together instead of further apart.
In a family, do we not have to give a little in order to get along? The same is true in the world. We must become integral is we are to live. We must rise above our narrowness in order to have a real sense of God.
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