Positive relationships, of any kind, can be tremendously rewarding, life-affirming, sanity-saving and one of life's greatest pleasures. I do believe God created us with a need to love and be loved. I think that is part of being created in His image; after all, God IS love and longs to have that reciprocal relationship with all of His creation. Furthermore, God gave us the capacity to have children, to create beings after our own image so that as parents we could experience that unconditional love and concern for our children, that He does for us. We are blessed to have support networks - the extended family that we are both born or adopted into and that which we choose ourselves (friends, partners, etc.).
I've been learning to stop and appreciate such relationships lately, a great deal. I have been extremely fortunate in my family situation (although it is by no means perfect, but that's part of its charm) and I am well aware that not everyone has this experience. For this reason, the relationships we make and keep out of choice are often extra special to us, and I am blessed to have friends that I truly love. I have certainly been appreciating these family ties and friendships lately. Admittedly, my appreciation has been mainly of an inward fashion, from afar, unexplicit. I will make a point to express this outwardly to my loved ones at some point. I cherish them, I really do.
But good gracious, they can be hard work sometimes. :o)
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