Christ in the Clouds

It was almost one year ago today that I wrote the post below. Happy Holidays.... Really, {With MY Family?} Go HERE to read it.... Yes, it's that time of year again.  And as the festivities begin, I remind myself that my family members are who they are.  There's nothing I can do about it.  Family relationships tend to bring out the worst in us, regardless of how evolved and self-aware we might be.   What is unacceptable treatment?  If any of these things sound familiar to you, you're definitely not alone. Rejection, abandonment, not taking the time to get to know you or to be in your life, making you feel unwelcome, someone being competitive or hypercritical of you, pressuring or forcing you to be someone you are not, blaming, ostracizing, manipulating, belittling, neglecting and abusing you…the list goes on and on and on. These types of experiences can make a deep imprint on our hearts and inhibit our ability to react without them being present in