Mother’s role

We all seem to spend much of our lives dealing with our “baggage” or “issues”. Where do these “issues” come from? For all of us, our issues are the sum total of our life experiences – stuff we have gathered on our journey on this plane – and perhaps even stuff we have brought from previous lives (who knows?). It starts off with the family in which we are born – in particular, our mothers, who have been described as the “keepers of the culture”. As we meet more and more people on our journey, we add to our experiences and “baggage”. We are constantly packing more and more stuff for the journey. Then, we get to a point where we wonder why we feel so weighed down, why life is tough and hard, why we feel so burdened.

This musing got me thinking about my own role as a mother. What is my responsibility to my children? Can I “raise” children without baggage? Can I so carry out my role that they have little or no “issues”. Surely, I must teach them something – but what? I know I don’t want to unload my own baggage onto them. I love my children too much to inflict my own issues, many passed down through generations, to them! So, what do I teach them?

I think there are a few simple yet fundamental things that my children need to know from me:

First that they are perfect just as they are – born beautiful, whole and complete. And that life is an uphill journey from a base of perfection rather than a decline into mediocrity, misery and suffering.

Second, that their true nature is divine and that they have a direct connection with God. They need no intermediaries. God is there with them, for them, as them ALL THE TIME.

Third, that they always are at choice – they have the power to choose in any and all situations. They have the power to create a new reality in an instant! In a moment! That their life circumstance as it appears to them is not permanent, and that they can always make a choice and a change.

The challenge of course is that not only must I tell them these things in words, I must also be them and act them. So, to affirm their perfection, I must always affirm my own. To recognize their divinity I must always recognize my own. And to help them know that they have the power of choice, I must ALWAYS use my power to choose my own reality.

I suspect that my children will still have their own baggage and issues. I just hope two things – it will be lighter than mine, and they will have the power to recognize that they can choose to shed the load – at any time they wish, and to travel light!