Strong and Harmonious Family

The Family as the smallest unit of community shapes the nation because it is where a person either feel or fail to feel the sense of belonging and self-worth, it teaches us values and how to interact and relate to other people outside our home.

Basic needs like being felt we belong and wholesome values and relationships should be established inside our home hence to prevent depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, broken family, divorce, homosexuality and juvenile delinquency and many other problems that are considered as society's liabilities.

Family should work as a team! We are not perfect but trying our best to participate and do our part will make a big difference. Having commitment is important, it is constant and becomes more deeper as the family strives to be strong and harmonious.

Family should have quality time together. The work inside the house should be divided so everyone could work and play as well. Board games, Bible study and chatting should as much as possible be done together.

Husband and wife should have intimate communication, so as parents and children. Eating together is one of the opportunities to have communication open. Members of the family should express their feelings freely to have effective communication.

Family shows appreciation to each member of the family. A simple thank you after having a favor for example will make a big difference.

When the family already established a close relationship, they will have the ability to solve problems in times of crisis. We are expecting crises for we are imperfect living in this imperfect world. Remember that weak families are destroyed while strong families become stronger after the storm. The strong may bend under a crisis but not break, and they always bounce back.

Family will not succeed outside guidance of God, so spiritual being of each member of the family is relevant to become a strong and happy.

Happy marriage yields to happy family of parents and children and can even reach their extended relatives especially when they all are of the same faith and values. And it all starts from those people who are committed to make their own family strong and work hard to persevere and maintain it.

Everyone would love to have a strong and harmonius family, and this can be achieve by making a simple step: Draw closer to your Creator by  observing His physical creation and by studying the Bible.