FAMILY OR FOE?

There is nothing that should matter more than your family.  Your bloodline.  When everyone else has abandoned you and the chips are down, family will always be there.  I don't think we spend enough time celebrating that element especially with it having so much meaning and purpose to who we are today.  It is a universal concept that transcends each race.

So much is learned from family; love, confidence, integrity, how to relate to others, many chances to forgive, not to mention, how to get mad at others and stay mad for a very long time.  We get to together on certain holidays to remind us of who we are and where we come from, but sometimes, things happen in life that cause dissension, resentment, hatefulness and separate us from that love.  Well today (Easter Sunday) is one of those occasions when we come together to edify one another and smile and laugh and enjoy the eatable goodness passed down from Grandma and her sisters

Like anything of substance, planning helps a lot.  Easter meal represents the resurrection of my Savior-Jesus Christ;  the fallen son of God.  Through him we should look at his life and decide how we are going to live our own lives.  Will we become a family that sticks together through thick and thin or will we weaken to the desires that split us further apart from each other and breakdown that theory.  Jesus teaches us that all things are possible and I believe it is necessary to challenge ourselves to be more like him on a daily balance and upon facing the next cogitation that presents itself-favorable or not.  We play an intrinsic part in the path of our own enigma and so do the people you call family.

Be it good times or bad, there needs to be someone you know in your heart will fight side by side with you in battle.  Friends can definitely become family and family can become the best of friends.  When you are going through your roughest periods, when everything you touch seem to taste sour, when those you thought were there for you all along, have long dissociated themselves and stop taking your calls, who do you count on at that point?  Jesus will never forsake you and a good friend will always have your back, but when it comes to your "family," are they friends or are they foe?  No matter what, you are the change agent for that future regardless of the past.