I have a confession to make. My dad was not always joyous and loving. He could get quite overtired, overworked and angered. Deep inside me, I loved dad so. Even though, my fatherly love would seem to evaporate with my dad’s volatile moods.

Whatever the relationship may have been with our dad’s, we learn and grow so much from having a father figure in our lives. Fortunate for me I was very influenced by the 60’s and 70’s with the burst in new age and fresh ideas about religion, self-help and family complexities. And the trend has continued to be wildly popular in present day. 

My first sign of real independence as an autonomous and independent thinker began with the Elvis craze. Dad could not stand him. I adored Elvis. From then on, I developed my own belief system and claimed my unique likes, dislikes and paths to greater inner and outer development. Can you pinpoint the occasion or time you shifted as a youngster becoming an independent thinker?

However, my dad gave me freedom to do this and provided a home from which I could springboard from with somewhat of a sense of inner strength. I knew inwardly my dad wanted me to grow up and become a happy and successful individual. 

Whatever climate we grew up in, we can use the climate for good or ill as the greatest catalyst for our determined happiness and fulfilling life. It really is not up to our dad’s whether we are happy inside or in the outer. What matters is to connect with the gumption that we all have in our inner selves. Bring it out and let yourself be the inspired person you were born to be.

We know the saving grace in life is not dependent solely on who our mom’s and dad’s were or whether they were considered good parents or bad ones. It’s our life now, always has been. We decide the direction of our life. We are the one’s to follow the path within and discover who we really are and what gifts we especially have to gift to the world around us.

Additionally, we have great help. It is our God nature so delicately and mightily woven into our being wholly and fully. None of us is without the ever-present inherent qualities and attributes of God. Likewise, the Spirit of the divine is unchanging and falters not. Our parents give us treasured elements placed in our childhood. Each one of these elements become the stones in which we use to stabilize and build our nature–and discover our light-filled, golden nature inside ourselves. Too, what a joyous journey it is, uncovering and expressing our goldenness. 

In prayer — We bless our parents, forgive them if necessary for every error, mistake and heartache they may have caused or the ones we may have caused them. We forgive let it go all of it except the love. Even if we need to begin with the love of God then know the deepest divine love for our parents, living or passed-on. 

We have become who we are because of our awakened moments within. We give abundant thanks for the awakening spirit indwelling and keep on in the magnificent journey of renewed human and spiritual awareness and enlightenment. We as individuals make our own path, carve out an illumined sculpture of our life to emulate and manifest–one of radiant beauty, inner joy and outer happiness and contentment. 

You are loved and a loving expression here on earth! I am so happy for YOU!