Life - family - love (part 2 - family)

Family is a "blessing" isn't it?

Regardless of how bad they are, they are still a blessing.

without family there is no way we can be here on earth. Without a mom and a dad - how can we possibly exist?

Family is a blessing.

On family:

At the moment, my brother and his wife is staying at our place, and will be here for quite a while. My sister-in-law is an interesting character. By interesting i don't mean anything bad, but rather good. She is interesting because she makes me think. She is different from everyone else in the family - because she's the only one who has the guts to talk to everyone.

She even rebuked us for being so cold towards one another. Something which I've been struggling with for the past 10 years.

As this is happening, a friend of mine has been asking me / or sharing with me of her experience with her church family. She felt that she is not growing in it and she was thinking of moving church family to ones that would be more encouraging. As I was listening to her story and with my own family story at the back of my mind, I couldn't help feeling discouraged/ indifferent/ and dispassionate towards family in general.

I guess family is something that I longed for , for the last few years - I do have one, but one that is not functioning as one. So when my friend asked me for advice/sharing, I couldn't listen or give proper feedback. I felt helpless and rather than learning from it, I declined, I forgot the things that I know and I descended into discouragement.

But yesterday, as I was talking with a godly couple about this, just about family in general, I was rebuked. I was rebuked to the fact that family is family regardless of how bad they are. You cannot give up on family. They are family. Even if you feel like giving up, they are your family and you should continue.

Family.. I know that I still struggle with this, but knowing that family is a family regardless of their quality - is so liberating. More liberating than anything. It helped me to move on and want to try to work on my family.

I know my pride will get in the way again, but I know the weapon to kill it. That is the grace that JEsus had given me.

My prayer is that He would open up my mouth so that we could begin the process of forgiveness and healing. I really do want to change and I pray and I know that God will be there all along the way until the end.