Family Matters and Situations

Family/ Parenting - Family Values

By: Lisa 27-Sep-2010

Introduction:

Families are wonderful gifts and our children are the greatest gifts we could ever ask for. How we act, speak and react and believe tells a lot about who we are and how we think and how we will act or react. We should be willing to compromise on our personal wants and needs to work on our marriages, our families. It takes lots of work and it's always worth it.

Children

Children are Gods gifts to us, and we need to put their esteem most important. If our children don't know we care they will never take heed or pay attention to what we say. They may pretend to hear but they won't listen to us at all. You may think they are listening but they are great pretenders until one day you wake up and find they are in trouble and you can't figure out what went wrong and how long ago did the issues start. Quality time is better than quantity time, if you have to choose. Make them memories that will last a life time! Do special things together with them so when they feel alone they will remember how things use to be with you! For example My two children and I would make Fridays our special days and have candle lite dinners together with each other. We would start 1 hour before sundown, we bought the necessary ingredients to make home made subway sandwiches, homemade cookies, ice tea or hot coco and get special table settings out and use them, we would listen to our music (Christian-praise and worship) then eat together while listening to our music and when we were finished eating we'd dance together and sing then when the sun when down Bibles & reading. Then talk about our week, the things we didn't get time to talk about at the dinner table through out the week. It paid off. In all things be and stay consistent at all cost. Pray for guidance and knowledge for what you need to do and say in each situation and with every issue be kind and loving in your words and actions. Teach them to unconditionally love and forgive and to know that people who hurt you might not know they did and if they do know then they are hurting so they spread the pain. We prayed every morning and evening together no matter what! It worked excellent and we are great friends and they are upstanding citizens in society. PTL & GBU.

Relationships

We need to work at our relationships no matter what! We need to stop being selfish and selfcentered in our relationships with our spouses and our children! We need to practice putting each other first. We compromise, communicate and commit to each other. We break down when we stop these things. We end up inviting trouble into our relationships whether our spouses or fiances or otherwise. We must show that we love unconditional, we forgive others who hurt us and it also relieves us of health issues too. There are so many things we can do together and for the other person. Droping small notes of encouraging words, praising the loved one for something they do even if in small ways. Do special things that are not expected for your loved ones. Pay attention to what your loved one needs and do it with out them asking you.U

Encouragement and Fatith

God makes no mistakes and all people are beautiful inside and out! Positive thinking and acting, thinking positive and positive action is best for each onne of us! If we have low selfesteem it can make for hard times. We get into the wrong ways of life, wrong situations, into trouble, low self esteem causes pain and problems and sin. We are special and sometimes we just need someone to show or tell us this fact. Sometimes we seek out wrong life styles and situations looking for love, encouragement, friendship, we don't find it we end up going to hardships that take us down the wrong path in life, it gets harder to get back up and out! We need encouragement and faith. Faith that God will always be there for each of us and will never leave us or forsake us! We may leave HIM but HE never leaves us. We must have faith of a mustard seed to keep on keeping on no matter what life brings our way. We need to search for Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to guide each of us to what things HE wants us to have. We need to seek HIS peace and love and forgiveness! There is no one like GOD to keep you. Remember the footprints poem? He carries us through.

Politics and Religion

I am a Christian and I know and believe God is in control and will guide us through if we allow HIM too. Politics get crazy and scarey for some but there is no need for fear, God is always near and wont leave us to fin for ourselves. We need only to study and read our scriptures for our selves and continue to pray for knowledge, wisdom, truth, justice, forgiveness, mercy and grace. We need to help our family and friends to be prepared and what to do and when to do it! As long as we are in a relationship with Christ we will be aware of all that is necessary and in HIS timing and HIS will. God bless you each one and your families and friends. We need to keep praying for this government and this planet for God to keep and stay in control of all things!

Grand Parents

Grand parents are awesome and a great help when allowed. Grandparents love to spoil the grandbabie of course and hand them back. Maybe its fun and maybe it's just a matter of now its the parents turn to get back at their children while getting even with them and spoiling the grand babies at the same time. Points for the grandparents! Kudos to grand parents! lol.

Final Thoughts

We need to get our families and relationships with others back on track. There is too much pain in the world! Lets put out positives and love, forgiveness, happy memories, mercy and grace, smiles on others sweet faces.We can turn a frown upside down and make someones day and lets always for each other keep on with praying. GBU.