Family is Everything!
My dad was one of eight children and I grew up with dozens of cousins. Four of us were all born within a few months of each other and have basically been a part of each other’s lives from birth onward. We attended the same schools, worshiped at the same church, spent holidays together and often vacationed at the same time. Growing up with a large extended family was one of my greatest blessings. I missed that for my children. Wayne and I don’t have family in the Seattle area and our children didn’t have the opportunity to know their cousins the same way I did. Even now as an adult I am still close to my cousins. Family is everything.
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Angie
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Apr 20, 2016 11:06AM
Agreed! Family is everything, always.
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Sounds nice. I only have my mother. We are close, but our family are not. We belong to a broken family - one that's splittered up into nothing. Ours don't love or care anythig about each other, preferring to get along alone and at distance. I guess I would now call ours dysfunctional. I never realised any of this until I met other people that shared love in their lives with their families. So now I know. I don't have a family, but I do have my mother and she's my only family and together we do what other families do: talk, smile, laugh and go places.
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 18:24
I thank God for the family I have, my husband and three kids. My parents have passed. I find that my church family is now much closer than any of my numerous relations, including my only brother. I pray for peace in accepting this, for I have long held expectations of close relationships with family, but between physical distance, differing lifestyles and busyness, I find fostering closeness between us rather difficult.
Growing up I do remember neighbors that had numerous close relations and friends. Through the years I've had to accept that my family might never look like that, and that's OK.
I celebrate with those that have large, close-knit families. I pray that one day perhaps one of my children might marry into one. I need to remember that it is not the size of the family that matters, but the love they share. God bless you all!
