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Contemptuous fabrics adorn the ever-present dynamic between us. Our each expression and expectations taking form and shaping our perspective. How then do we come together under the roof of understanding as we remember with clear vision, a lifetime of difficulty?
Each band of light in our minds’ eyes representing the stories we’ve told ourselves for decades. And now—here and now—we are given the incredible gift—the responsibility—to dissolve the walls which we both served to guard for so long.
We now begin to change the very structures of our DNA and create new pathways in our brains.
Where do these paths lead, I wonder. What majesty awaits on the other side as we traverse our way into the boundless fields of possibility? How then will our relationship change?
What elements have you brought from your father and your father’s father and his before he? What elements will I carry from you—all of you—into the heart of my own child?
These questions have haunted my dreams for years, but today is a new day. Today we rewrite the story realizing it wasn’t etched into the hardest of steel, but merely drawn in the shifting sands of the great temporal desert.
We get to choose, on this day, to relinquish our stronghold on past transgressions and choose a new path forward, in a good way, for all generations to come and all those who have come before.
Today is our day, father, to let go, to forgive, to move forward in a harmonious chorus cloaked in the ceremonial garbs of a solemn promise to choose a new expression for ourselves and those we love as we move forward, leaving the past behind us.
Today we choose love.
Today we choose life.
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