This is episode 1,698. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you as you get ready to give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity today as you meditate.

Or maybe you're out walking around doing errands listening to this podcast and you're going to do the technique as you go about your day.

That's perfect. about your day. That's perfect.

Honor your own unique journey.

We all start our meditation journey somewhere.

In today's episode, we continue with our series on love. And we're focusing on a particular kind of love in this

week's series. That is Storje. It is the Greek word that means familial love. That's the love we share with family, even our pets. It's the kind of love that has to do more with

affection. We're not usually choosing this kind of love.

You didn't necessarily choose your family.

You may have chosen a family for yourself, somebody who seemed like family and you wanted to include into your

family.

But mostly this kind of love has to do with unconditional love.

And it's the kind of love that C.S. Lewis describes in his book, The Four Loves that we're

following along with in this week's series. This love has to do with affection. So a mother will love her child, no matter what that child does.

It's a humble love.

And C.S. Lewis explains how this Storje familiar type of love can create a beautiful foundation for other

types of love you express in your life, especially in regard to eros or more romantic love.

With this familiarity, this comfortable feeling, you can have this as the base or foundation

to build upon a deeper, more romantic love.

So this week is about building that familiarity, that comfortable, more unconditional love.

C.S. Lewis talks about affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives, he says.

It lives with humble, undress, private things.

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