2nd Installment What's Normal

I've been thinking a lot about blogs and the purposes of blogs. I've also been reading some of my family's blogs and some others at random. (Please don't think when reading this blog that I think you aren't normal, on the contrary I believe there's much more normalcy around us than we think.) This and other things brought me to the main thought behind this next installment. I think it interesting that most people think that their life is normal and everyone else is just a little bit off course (especially in a global sense). I've recently come to believe that learning to show Christ like love in a family environment (and later in our whole environment) is the thing that will make us most normal and also, that any other goal, or any lack of a goal in this life is what causes the real day to day problems in this life. And that no other pursuit in life can bring us as much happiness. Susan's gratitude blog and many other comments in other family blogs-discussions, etc and some time in places like Germany and Iraq brought me to this conclusion. We that live in the more peaceful parts of the world and have the luck or what ever to live with family nearby, are the most blessed, and normal, and that we are sometimes unaware of how lucky we are. I've witnessed many types of family life, in many parts of the world, we have it pretty good. A little Bedouin family I got to know in Iraq loved each other as much as we do, they played together as we do, they worked together to survive which we do to a small extent. A German family I got to know were divided by the Iron Curtain. They still loved each other though only able to communicate with letters. Our lives are much more stable than some other places and this makes a normal life more certain. The thing that ties all happy families together in the in the realm of normalcy is that they love and serve each other. That is what brings them true happiness. No selfish goal will bring happiness. I thank you for teaching me this. Blogs are making the world smaller. Maybe the "family of man" can really happen if enough people in the world show their Love for their brothers and sisters all over the world. I hope we"ll all pay a little more attention to greeting the world around us with love (happiness).