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How to Create a Spiritual Family
Very often in life, we find ourselves bereft of the family our souls need and want.
You may find yourself in years of therapy trying to cope with the difficult relationships you have had with your father, mother, brothers, sisters, aunts or uncles.
On the other hand, perhaps you were an orphan, perhaps you were adopted into a family or your childhood fell way outside the norms of what most people consider a healthy, happy family.
I will never forget giving a lecture years ago at a school district where they explained that nearly 10 percent of their students came from parent-less households. The children had to dress themselves, feed themselves, do their own homework and even find their way to school on their own. They didn’t have a mother or father and had to parent themselves.
How do you cope?
How can you find a way to fill the hole in your heart?
My suggestion: Create a spiritual family.
First, an understanding.
There is no such thing as a vacuum in the universe.
If you look around, you will discover that people have been placed into your life who are capable of loving you exactly as you are, understanding who you really are, accepting you as you actually are and able to give you the…
