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My sweet old granny, part Native American, saw heaven in such a simple way. She sang to us at every opportunity, “Shall the Circle be Unbroken…” She told of her love for Jesus. Her vision was for all her loved ones to be standing on a beautiful shore, ready to embrace her, when she left this life. Perhaps its best to keep the hope simple. In fact, the idea of a Native village, sat in a meadow, along a nice stream, surrounded by tall forest trees, by songs and drums and dancing and feasting and resting, well it doesn’t get much better. The Native idea of hell was to be banned from your clan and village for your bad choices. Perhaps it’s not so much about being together forever, as it is about separation for our loved ones. I don’t need worlds without end, I just hope to see granny and grandpa again, him with his tobacco pipe and Native greeting, “Hes’jay” (Muscogee Creek). Beautiful, george. Thanks for sharing that lovely vision. I just came back from a family reunion. Our family is pretty big, so we took over the resort for a few days, it was fun. We spent an evening watching a slide show of pictures of everyone (baby pictures, embarassing pictures, wedding photos, holiday gatherings, etc). We must have spent a full 60 minutes just watching picture after picture after picture of memories we all share and laughed as it brought back fond memories we had forgotten about. We also loved to see how the clothing styles changed (my kids made fun of me and my siblings).
When it came time to eat dinners and plan activities, we always grouped by individual family to get organized and do things. Not everyone was there…some on missions or school or divorced and not blood relatives that would want to be there. We got frustrated at times as it took forever to make decisions on where to eat or who wanted to golf or whatever…and some things were said that hurt people’s feelings from time to time. But we had a good time, laughed a lot and were all sad when the week ended.
I picture forever families will be similar. We won’t be together all the time, walking around like a family pack doing whatever we do in the eternities…but we’ll have our reunions together, think of good old earthly times, watch home movies, and always have those bonds that keep us together. Not everyone will be there because of free agency, and some we won’t want to be around, but I hope to be building relationships with those I can in this life so we can have those relationships in the eternities. In other words, not guarantee it will be mother father and siblings and children, but if I don’t have good relationships with mom or dad or siblings, at least start building that with my kids, or vice versa.
But i also think there will be something different because we won’t have some restraints on relationships that exist in our mortal experience as a family. I think it’ll be easier to get along up there.
Just thought I’d share that since we just got back from our family gathering.
Kalola ยป 28 Jul 2009, 22:02 Quote:There are times a topic comes to mind for no particular reason. This is one of those times.
I’ve been wondering why some families would want to be together forever when they can’t get along in this life. Do families really want to be together forever? If they do, what do they envision a forever family to be comprised of? Mom, dad, children? Do people envision those children as infants, toddlers, teens or adults?
Three years ago my 88 year old aunt was dying. She and her husband had had a very rough marriage. She astonished everyone near the end by saying that she could hardly wait to get to the other side and be with her husband. I have thought about this alot and suspect, near the end, we are better able to value whats really important, relationships. I have read a few accounts of people who died, went to the other side and returned to write about it. What I pick up in the back ground of all these books, is no one is bickering about anything on the other side. I beleive it’s a condition of this world only. In fact most of them learned we need to show more love and understanding towards each other in this world.
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