We are family!

"This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little...and broken...but still good. Yeah, still good." - Lilo & Stitch

None of us fall from the sky. We are all created. This means we are part of a family - that family might be only one other person, but a family we still are. 

Now, some of us are lucky enough to experience wonderful and functioning families from birth...which will still leave us scarred and traumatized in one way or a few others...because life is what it is and even the most beautiful souls aren't perfect...

But a lot of people do not even have this better beginning. For them, family is what breaks you, what hates you, what uses you up and then spits you out. And becoming healthy and whole involves setting strict boundaries with the family you were born into. Which can leave you feeling alone...unwanted...

The miracle? Families aren't just made, they can also be chosen! It has even been said that our capacity for friendship is God's way of making up for our families ;)

What we know to be "family" - people biologically connected - is a "family", yes. But it is only one type. "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Richard Bach

"Family" means having people who are participants in, and witnesses to, your life. "Family" is people who stand by you, who hold you, when everything goes to hell. "Family" is to always have someone to love and someplace to go. If your blood is where that family starts - you are blessed. If you cannot have that - all is not lost.

You can find your family, and it can mean just as much as all of us think blood should. In fact, once you broaden your perspective of "family", you might just find that they have surrounded you without you noticing. 
Let's stop feeling alone and/or abandoned; let's relish the family we have - however it might have come to be!