It’s a Matter of Degrees
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
I am back to considering my genetic history and ancestry today. It’s challenging to trace all the intricacies of family dynamics — especially since there are aspects of life that may go unrecorded. For instance, my paternal-grandfather was adopted. I know about that fact in the line. Because I know that he was adopted, I also have been able to identify his birth parents, and link back from that. I know about that genetic connection.
Yet… what about the undocumented connections and adoptions and family dynamics? What do those things that we don’t know about portend?
Well, a genetic test can tell us a little bit.
Research can tell us a little bit more.
At the end of the day… maybe the best thing we can discover is that we are all related in the grand scheme of life. It’s true, isn’t it? If we go back far enough into the history of life (and I am talking about more than human experience) we are all part of the same infinite wholeness.
Let’s take it back even more to before there was life on this planet. If the matter of the Universe has always existed, and everything is comprised of various incarnations of that matter, then we’ve all become the living, breathing accumulation of the Universal matter that has always existed.
I happen to be the accumulation of matter known as Jonathan Zenz - but every atom in my body has existed in some fashion for as long as the Universe has been in existence. So I am at least 13 billion years old. Well the sum of my parts is only 44 years, but the parts themselves are as old at time itself.
What does it matter? Well, when we begin to truly get past the limited ideas of separation and realize we are truly of the same stuff, perhaps discontent and discord will cease to be a part of our expression and experience. Let’s approach each other with love, respect, and joy — full in the knowledge that at our core we are all related.
Let’s create a global family. We can do it!