Del Rosario: Sisters are Forever

A BOND is a uniting force. Something that ties one to another, like a link, a cord or a chain. What is it that bonds sisters with one other?

I wrote this article around the second week of March this year, as one of my back up articles "just in case" Mike gets too busy again to catch his deadline of submission. This is one of those "just in case" moments.

The much awaited reunion of my five sisters and I have come to an end, but our communication has not. Every single day since (one by one) a sister left for her home, the Viber sound of my phone has been busy. And I would go misty eyed again, as I read a message.

One week is like a blink of an eye. It seems like only yesterday when we arrived and two of my sisters with their spouses picked up Mike and I at the Honolulu airport. Thus started the endless chatting and laughing and eating and posing for the camera. This describes the reunion we had; a.k.a. “Family Convention” as Mike called it. “One….. Two……” (pronounced in hard Tagalog accent), Bill, my Irish American brother-in-law would start teasing us, as the six sisters pose yet again for another pictorial. Thank God for patient husbands/photographers!

“God gives you a best friend for life when He gives you a sister!” This is indeed true for us. How blessed we are that we have one another as best friends, especially now in our middle ages (52 – 63 years old). Distance is no barrier to “being there” for one another. Viber, Email, Facebook and Facetime are lifesavers. And although it has not been tested, I feel certain that if needed, and capable, anyone of us will fly to the moon and back for the sake of the other.

I am not foolish to think that all siblings’ relationships are ideal, or even simply normal and happy. But, I believe that if it is within our power to decide, there should not be anything or anyone to go between the love of two sisters. Not any suitor nor a spouse nor anyone at all; not any misunderstanding nor any debt, not even the attention of a favored parent.

Sisters are forever. If God has gifted you with a sister or more, I say you are truly blessed. Make the most of it by showing your love for one another every single day.

And if your relationship has been compromised for one reason or another, make the first move. Forgive and ask forgiveness. Life is too short to miss the joy of experiencing a sister’s love.

Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother (sister) is born for adversity.”

My Dearest Sisters,

Thank you for the priceless memories. Let’s continue praying that we will all enjoy the gift of remembering in our old age. Mom may not have been blessed with this gift, but by God’s grace, even if the mind forgets, the heart remembers. Whenever Mom looks at me with those smiling eyes of hers, I know that deep in her heart, she remembers.

Looking back, all six of us had our own share of petty quarrels in our growing up years. That’s something to laugh about now, as we reminisce the past. The reality is, those growing up experiences and shared memories are parts of the “bond that ties” us all up intricately and powerfully.

Let us focus on the happy memories of our childhood; of Mom and Dad and their legacy of faith and love and all the virtues that they have lived and modeled for us to follow. Let us focus on making the most of what little time we have of this journey called life. How? By being “there” for one another, in more ways than one. By creating more happy memories for our loved ones.

And may our deep love for one another be the one thing that our children and grandchildren will remember when they talk about us, in their future reunions. Did I read right Elaine’s (my sister Del’s eldest child) Viber message to her cousins about a future “Cousins Convention”?

Till next reunion/convention!

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