OHM Family

I've thought of the series of previous posts

And hope they don't sound like a death watch

Instead they're like trail markers along the journey

That will one day remind me of the important lessons learned

Or serve to guide when I visit a similar path again

I thought back to a post earlier this year

when the word Love picked me as the word for the year

I remembered saying how the previous word Trust presented so many lessons

And nervously wondered what Love had up its sleeve

It's only a quarter into the year and already I've learned more than in my lifetime

Thank you for sticking by me as I cautiously step through the foggy path

Leading me with your prayers and words of wisdom

I did what everyone told me not to do

I ran myself down and became ill

So after my shift at the hospital I arrived home at 5:30 yesterday morning

And spent the next 24 hours really sick

And yet, through the headache and stomach woes I kept telling myself

That this times 100 is what my Mama is going through

And I told myself you have one day to snap out of it

I feel better today not 100% but enough to stand back up and walk the path

When I arrived at the hospital after my last post

I lifted the blanket to check on my Mama's cast

She looked like she was wearing a 'fat suit'

As she moaned that her body was so heavy and painful

I tried to make light by telling her that her butt now looked like mine

I told her that's what happens when you tease someone

She smirked

Before I awoke this morning I heard something

 in that dreamy state that sounded something like:

"Ohm family - a group of individuals who gather to

 provide guidance and support during difficult times.

Appearing at moments of great growth..."

As the dog jumped on me to say good morning

 I still had those words in my head

Slowly coming awake I thought, why am I dreaming definitions

I repeated it to myself and realized how fitting to my current path

Ohm: The sound of life itself

Family: All the people descended from a common ancestor

So isn't it fitting

That my Mama's illness has uncovered an Ohm Family for me

Those whose calls and emails and prayers

Remind me that this family is not about flesh and blood lineage

It's about where we truly originate from

no matter what you want to call it

the Light, Heaven, Spirit

And Ohm, the prayers, the love, uniting us all

Thank you