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Family
One of the valuable lessons which I learned growing up was that family is important. My father was fond of saying that friends would come and go, but that family would always be there for you. I also recall how painful it was to both of my parents when there was an argument between siblings. Brothers and sisters shouldn’t fight like mortal enemies, a little healthy competition is okay, but siblings should always stick up for each other. If there are rifts in your family, do your best to heal them, and strive to help your family and always be there in times of need. We should have this same attitude to our extended family, to our aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and even distant cousins. But, we should also realize that we are all God’s children and thus part of the human family. No doubt it pains God to see his children fighting and killing each other, no less than it pains human parents when they see their children fighting.
“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. . . .As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”
Acts 17: 26-28