The singer Celine Dion, the fourteenth daughter of a Canadian family, after her big success with the film “Titanic”, made some decisions.

The most important of all: to become a mother. Married since 1994 with her manager, she decided it was time to be closer to home. Her husband had been diagnosed as having cancer three years earlier. He was still recovering; therefore she decided to dedicate herself to him as well.

She spent two years away from the spotlights, from the concerts, from the artistic life. She became a mother and, to stay next to her son, she made the option of negotiating a contract which would allow her to be close to home.

She has just moved to Las Vegas, where she is building her house, and she decided to go out only to perform in her evening shows.

She says: “My son is my priority. All ages are important, but the first years of a child are of fundamental importance.

I do not mind if he becomes a dustman, a fireman, a guitarist, a lawyer, a dentist, a father. I only want him to be a good person. I whish he will be generous, responsible and open minded.

Sometimes, a person is ‘nobody’. The person has no money, is not successful or beautiful, but he or she has good intentions and a good heart. We should pay more attention to people like that.”

Where do these values come from? Celine says she is sure they come from her upbringing in a family with little money. Although her parents had just enough to put food on their table, the door of their house was always open to whoever knocked on it.

The fourteen kids had an education based on love. “They gave me security,” says the singer. “When we have this base of love, this certainty of being able to count on siblings and parents, we know there is always someone who will support us, no matter what.

Having a big family, I know I will always have lots of people around. My biggest treasure is my family, the people I have around me, the love and support they give me”.

 “My voice” she continuous “is just something else, apart from that.” If she did not have a voice to sing and be successful, she would be happy being a mother or working in a shop. Her true happiness, she confesses, is her roots and her values.

Talking about her family, she concludes: “If it is God’s wish, we will spend as much time as possible together. We are very fortunate for living every single day.

We should thank and prize what we have got. When death arrives, we will find endurance to face it. That is life. It was not given, but lent to us.”

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The spiritual messengers teach us: parents’Spirits have great influence on the Spirits of their children.

Their mission is to develop their children’s Spirits through education; it is the parent’s responsibility to contribute with their children’s progress.

They also teach us that the first years of childhood are of great importance, as they are the basis for the new life that is starting.

Therefore, family is very important. Nothing in the World will substitute the tenderness, the care taken and the values transmitted by parents to their children.

Values which transcend time, space, life on Earth, as they were acquired by the Spirit; they move from one stage of reincarnation into another, as a personal inalienable inheritance.

Spiritist Moment Team,  based on the article Ela voltou, from the magazine  Reader’s Digest,  November/ 2002, and in the question 208 from the  O livro dos espíritos, by Allan Kardec, publishing house: Feb.