Family

At the end of the day, tracing your genealogical roots back to the very beginning, you will find that you are a descendant of either Shem, Ham, or Japheth.  For those of you who don't know, those are Noah's sons.  Therefore, we truly are all one big family.  Yet God in His ingenuity began with the smallest of family units - a man and a woman.  Family is extremely important to God, so much so that He created man so that He would have one! Even though Adam and Eve's rebellion against God separated us from Him, His overwhelming love for us had already devised a redemptive plan that was so brilliant that those who partake of it will never be separated from Him again.  That's love!  With only this small glimpse of the reality of God's love for us, His sacrificial example should compel each of us to walk in a place where love is our only option.  We know this is not the case, but this was written with the desired effect of beginning a change in your thought process: Starting with the way you love your parents, spouse, children, and trickling down and branching out to every level of your family, beyond your bloodline, and even to the most remote person in the world that you will probably never even lay eyes on because that's how strong the love of God is.  After all, He is love!  If you can start and expand from this place you can and will begin to see life from God's perspective, and if each of us would begin to operate in those principles, what a wonderful place this could be.  God created us to live in the Garden of Eden.  If we each adopt this worldview, we could live extremely close to that model.  I would like to hear your thoughts.  Let's start a conversation!