Family
Clever Put Downs Won’t Help …
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-218 (Family Issues) CLEVER PUT DOWNS WON’T HELP YOUR MARRIAGE by Norman and Ann Bales (from All About Families) For many years we’ve read the comics section of the daily newspaper. It’s amazing how a cartoonist can give the reader a slice of life in four panels. Recently, we found ourselves frowning […]
Something Beautiful
An MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) friend writes: “When I was going through the worst of my therapy dealing with the sexual abuse resultant from Satanic ritual abuse as well as the dysfunctional sexual abuse in my home, one of ‘my parts’ hated herself for the things she had “done” (actually, things she was forced to […]
Children’s Insights
A father was working in his den on that all-important take-home work when his two small children came in to ask him to play. “Please, Daddy.” they pleaded. “Please play with us.” The father felt that he was just too busy, so he opened a magazine on his desk and tore out a picture of […]
The Family
Christian parents often express concern about the Santa Claus and Easter Bunny myths. We advocate that if the parents are believing, teaching, and living the life of Jesus in the family, the children can enjoy some of the fun of the myths surrounding Easter and Christmas without losing sight of the historical facts which began […]
Children
Kids are not the ‘adults of the future’. I wince when I hear some church elders use this expression. To say this is to deny kids any status or value in the present. They exist now as persons in a specific developmental stage. They may be in another developmental stage in six months’ time. Sometimes […]
Church As Family
We are heirs of the Father, We are joint heirs with the Son, We are children of the kingdom, We are family, we are one. Jimmy & Carol Owens, ‘We are family’, No. 165, Scripture in Song, Vol.1, 1989 ~~~ When you became a Christian, you not only became a friend of God but you […]
Grandparents
There are many points of difference between children and their grandparents – at least as many as between children and their parents. Ideally, the roles for the several characters in this human drama should be specific and different. As grandparents, we are no longer charged with the responsibility of bringing children up. Even when they […]
Bystander Apathy
by Rubel Shelly What do the following people have in common? A firefighter, police officer, or rescue worker who pulls someone from a burning car seconds before it explodes. An ordinary Jane or Joe who rushed down an embankment to help people get out of a derailed Amtrak train car last week outside Washington, D.C. […]
The Wooden Bowl
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. […]
I Am My Sister’s Keeper
From Al-Awda News. . Fingerprints by Samah Jabr MY GRANDMOTHER cried when I was born just 24 years ago today. Her tears did not run down her cheeks in awe of the miracle of birth nor in relief that my mother and I were recovering nicely. Instead, her cry was a salty sign of her […]
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