What I was thankful for today?

My sister wrote me the kindest words today. My real sister and I are still spiritual friends after growing up together. Nice, and seemingly rare.

Nice to have spiritual intimacy with siblings-as I get older, it appears to be unusual. When your blood family, is actually also a spiritual family, it’s a gift.

Love my sister. Kind of her to write today. She wrote me an encouragement about my voice meeting special ones with healing, and meant it. The tone told me so. I have that spiritual relationship with both my parents, we have a shared spirituality, sort of like Jesus (not that I’m even in the ballpark with Jesus, i mean we are in the same ball park, but He owns the whole stadium and is the team, and the organ which plays before the game and all the fans; I’m just talking about his friendship with his parents here) had with His mom, and I assume His dad as well (I think they were actual friends, it’s just a hunch). But it’s even cooler, as I get older, or as cool, to have a sister love which is also real.

Most people really struggle to make a spiritual or any other type of intimate connection with their family. My family actually cares and prays for each other, and we love each other. It’s a blessing really. Maybe we have the grace of quick forgiveness, because we like each other in clear view of our faults. Nothing to sneeze at, as they say, in the south.

Anyway, nice to get a kind, erudite (our mom, as well as being a remarkable artist, was an english major so we both had to learn to write well) and love en-toned word from my sister today. Words still matter! Especially from a loving sister! So thankful that my actual family is also part of my spiritual family, and that my sister and I dig each other. Nice gifts in life, and as I said, it appears to be rare. That’s what I was thankful for this today anyway.

She’s much more functional than me (I wasn’t the black sheep in my family, but certainly more a purple one; and a bit of an unidentified flying object; i certainly wouldn’t have wanted to parent me!). She is a medical doctor, top of her field, working with traumatic pregnancies, serving women (especially low income) in need all over the world (most recently in Ethiopia); and she’s a great wife and mom, and all that; yet she does more than tolerate her strange artistic brother, she actually likes me, prays for us, and cares about our lives, and invites us into hers. Her culture is very different than mine, but we welcome one another into ours, in tangible love. What a gift. I must be blessed for know family love. Thanks sis. Love still matters! As do kind words from sisters! Best blessing i got today!

All walls can begin to be broken down by love in family. Nice to have a loving sister example of that. Healing begins at home.

I wasn’t the black sheep in my family, more a purple sheep- someone interesting, but your not sure what to do with it. More of a unidentified flying object really. I wouldn’t have wanted to parent me. My sister through the years, has often given me simple love, which keeps me flying.

Sister love can’t be overrated. Thanks sister for your loyal steadfast love to a strange or, at least, as grandmother would say, “peculiar” brother.

Anyways, thankful today for my sister’s kind (and well written-our mom was a english major, so we were both taught to write well early on) words of encouragement today, and thankful that my actual family is also part of my spiritual family. Nice gifts in life, and as I said, it appears to be rare. That’s what I was thankful for this day.