My own family was a wreck.....I was lucky to marry into an incredible family....they have been caring, understanding, accepting, and non judgemental !! I have learned how a regular family acts, and its empowering and uplifting. They have healed many scars, and brought my own family closer.....thank you lord again !! And God bless our family please.....im a lucky man !!
We were not a religious family-not that it wasn't discussed and voted on actually when I was young.
(We even were sent to Sunday school a few times-but short lived as the repeated fights we got in, with the best clothes being messed up stopped that affair)
My Dad had a family meeting actually one day, and stated a comment/question pretty well like this:
(From a boomshack perspective it came from, and working with 450 others at a sawmill.)
"This family, and this one (he named half dozen or more)
Go to church as a family every Sunday and they donate this amount of $$$ every week
Now we can do this as well as a family, or we can take that $$$ and put it in the gas tank and go out for a family drive/trip every weekend if the chores are done.
Now the vote-all in favour-raise your hands...
"
Starting from a wee lad of well before I even went to grade school, we would go out for a drive every weekend.
This was to rock hunt, arrowhead hunt, to hunt, fish, dig for old bottles, detect, or to antique the countryside.
He kept his word-and that was the best learning experiences I will ever have.
