Comments on: What Family Means to Me https://familyfestbarbados.org/what-family-means-to-me/ Help, Hope, Healing, Happiness to Families Sat, 23 May 2020 17:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Cheryl Outram https://familyfestbarbados.org/what-family-means-to-me/#comment-23 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:36:58 +0000 https://familyfestbarbados.org/?p=2036#comment-23 Thanks for your comment Sharon. Great examples. You are correct, sometimes our church Family is more connected and offers a better platform for communication and cooperation than our biological family. Sometimes I wonder what skills are lacking in the biological family, any ideas? What causes the biological family to be reduced to relatives?

]]> By: Sharon https://familyfestbarbados.org/what-family-means-to-me/#comment-22 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:47:14 +0000 https://familyfestbarbados.org/?p=2036#comment-22 Good morning. I like the distinction made between relatives and family and as I reflect deeply on this, the more I realise it to be true.

Too often the only connection that exists between relatives is their blood. On the other hand, family has a deeper intertwining connection such as being engaged in meaningful communication and spending quality time together. In many ‘blood’ families this does not exist and with the advent of social media, the gap has become even wider.

My mind then drifts to the church family; we are not blood related but we are very much together through the blood of Jesus Christ. We laugh, talk, joke around and share the problems of one another.

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