Family

     Have you ever stopped for a moment and listened to the wind blowing through the trees?  Or perhaps stopped for a moment on your walk and watched the birds playing on the grass as they busily look for their morning meal?

     Why do I bring up such thoughts into your mind?  The answer is simple!  Today with the CoronaVirus pandemic wildly spreading throughout the world, many people are being forced to stop from their regular normal daily routines and this has created a tremendous void in the lives of many.

     They do not know what to do now that their lives have been so drastically interrupted.  They have moved through their complicated lives every day at a pace that they themselves never realized.  That is until now, when they have been forced to pause from the ordinary and reevaluate what their daily routines need to be.

          We often spend so much time GOING THROUGH life that we take very few opportunities to really APPRECIATE life!  There are so many things going on around us that when it comes down to the bottom line (as the expression goes) we must admit they are of very little consequences.  We often make such things the primary focus of our lives and yet in the “larger picture” those things are of very little importance.

     One of those PRIMARY things that we often take for granted and often is the very thing that suffers most is our families and our relationship to them.  We many times spend hours and hours working secularly so that our families will be better off!  What we fail to realize is that what our families need the most is US!  They need our time and our attention.  These are the very things we fail to give them because we think we are doing what is best for them.

     Regardless of our station in life.  Beyond the amounts of money we may be bringing into the household.  What our families really need is US!  We cannot jeopardize the most important thing in our lives by pursuing what we think is the greatest of value.  Sadly we usually only realize this when we have gotten to the point of no longer having the very relationships we were trying to create.  We, many times, don’t appreciate what we have until we have lost it or we have damaged it beyond repair.  We will reach for status, wealth, prominence, and any other marker of importance that we can think of, when all we really need to do is work as hard on our relationships with the people who are the closest and most dearest to us:  FAMILY!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Before attacking any person,

think of those in their family."