Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
- Mark 3:25
“Mooooooom!! He’s touching me!!!”
Children, even teenagers have made this phrase pretty common, I’m sure we have all heard it if not spoken it ourselves.
I think that all siblings have a battle royale at some point growing up, maybe more than one.
Sometimes those battles morph into adulthood, and even cause animosity between adult siblings, sometimes extending to other family members.
We might have an aunt that is always negative, that never has anything nice to say, or an uncle that causes trouble wherever he goes.
Perhaps it is the cousin that we dread seeing at family gatherings because as children he was a bully and he never outgrew that.
Family is a strong bond, it is often said that you can choose your friends but you are stuck with family.
But family is not always healthy, there are many toxic people out there, and at some point, family or not, we have to draw the line before they destroy us.
Family doesn’t have to be by blood, but we need our family to be strong, whether it is church family, work family, or friends family, we need family.
Family to hold us up when we are falling down, to encourage us when we fail, to love us when we feel unloved.
We should try to make amends, to be adults and repair family rifts because we all need each other.
Leave the feuding behind.
I know it can’t always happen that way, we are not all from strongly bonded families, but at least try to make peace and if you are the one that no one wants to be around, maybe you need to do some soul searching and make some changes.
It’s not too late.
#dailybreadbykitty
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