Family makes the world go around

The Eriksen Family Boxing Day Reunion moved from Keady to Williamsford for the first time in over a decade of its existence, interesting seeing how the arena has been transformed from a hockey to curling only facility, with a very slim hall to hold the dwindling numbers as they are. I believe the reason for its move partly belongs to the fact that there are only a few skaters, such as myself, who continue to use the ice at Keady and no the majority of the family curls and does not skate, which makes sense, sadly as I would have thought Canadians skated too. As the numbers dwindle down, not only for the skating, but the fellowship of family with missing members and lost ones every year, makes you recognize what you have before you have it not.

But I think this thought is exactly why family makes the world go around.

Regeneration, the renewal, reformation and restoration of family, is a part of life and can be a family activity in of itself, where parents pass along the love of one another to the children, who find others to love, though which others are made, to which these new parents repeat the cycle all over again. To each thing there is a season, we need not remain always sad and depressed over these changes, as happily winters become summers eventually, to which we become glad and optimistic, instead we should enjoy the winters for the reasons behind these seasons are of the mystery of God. I may not curl, but I can enjoy others doing so, in their way and mean of activity and recreation, just the same we should view the family, its creation and regeneration, in all of its sensual and emotional entities combined.