“I write about families because I love them

 

“I write about families because I love them.  When I travel alone far from home, I think of my children’s faces to calm myself down.  I picture them smiling, studying, playing violin or volleyball.  I picture my husband’s face bent over his guitar or relaxed and fresh, the way it is on the mornings when we drink coffee together on the front porch.  Those faces are my mandalas.  They comfort and secure me.  The faces of those we love are the first, the primal, mandalas for us all.”[1]

 

 

 

These are the sentiments that happily married people nurture and sustain in their hearts.  If they focused on their mandalas instead of on their frustrations and unfulfilled desires, these are the people who have shown an incredible willingness of reaching out, of seeing past their own egos.

 

(Marriage is not the extension of the romance junkie phase.  It is equivalent to a long term commitment that emotionally intelligent husbands and wives understand fully. 

 


[1] Doctor Mary Pipher.  The Shelter of Each Other:  Rebuilding our Families.  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. 1996.



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