"Did you get together with family last week?"

Did you get together with family members around Thanksgiving to share a meal and some time together? Of course, it’s been a year since you saw these family members and maybe that’s by choice. I mean, you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. You’re just kinda lumped together by birth. Which means being family can be a real challenge sometimes.

Knowing that being family can be a challenge, a teacher discussed the Ten Commandments with her class of five and six year olds. She explained the commandment to “honor your Father and your Mother.” Then she asked the class, “Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?”

Without missing a beat one little boy, the oldest child in his family, said, “Thou shall not kill.”

Sometimes just surviving a family gathering is an accomplishment. So, remember your Ten Commandments when your family gets together and listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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