What Family Really Means

Thank God for my mama. She always loved us no matter what we did or didn't do. But equally important, she taught us that family is always family. Family members may mess up or make choices that you do not agree with, but they are still family. I have never stopped speaking to a family member. Sometimes, I did not agree with them, but . . . I have tried to bring the "black sheep" back into the fold. But sometimes only the good shepard can help. Prayer is my only hope now in some family situasions. As I type this, I am thinking that prayer should be my first choice, not my only choice. I pray that some broken relationships can be restored before too much time passes.

When our parents divorced, our mother or father never said a bad word about the other. They never allow us to use the divorce as a way to gain control as a child. They always supported each other. I now know that they did not always agree of course because people don't. But they were always the parents and we were the children. Now as an adult, I understand how family can fall apart no matter how hard we try to hold it together. Things happen that you never would have imagined. But I want an open door, family is always family.

Thanks Mama for loving us and teaching us to love unconditional love! Thanks for never cutting us out of your life when we made you angry. Thanks for being the best mother ever. I hope that someday, Emma looks up to me half as much as I look up to you.