Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose...

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much...

If she wasn’t your grandmother I’d shoot her.”Ranger

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day.

I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for...

It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong.

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

My family never talks about feelings, and we certainly never talk about plutonium. It’s hard to take something seriously if you can’t see it, smell it, touch it, or feel it. Plutonium is a cosmic...

People will come and go, so enjoy your seasons of friendship.

We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.

Maybe that’s what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you’re just little bits rolling apart.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not...

We don’t get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they’re difficult.

Her hands flew to her mouth. ‘Are we even twins?’Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. ‘I will always be your...

This last year… I learned something about family. Like it’s not about blood alone. It’s being connected… it’s growing up together and loving each other. It’s believing in the same God and knowing you’d do...

It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be and he will become what he should be.

I thought of my mother (…). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

It’s always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it’s always my friends who bring me back.Agents of Light and Darkness p.218

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

Personally, I think the ‘Christian family’ should be called a Christian fantasy.

Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other

Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often...

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

Whatever happens, happens for the best.’ That’s how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family. Everyone in every family has an inner psychiatrist who rises to the occasion with some home-made mottos, a few...

When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking...

I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family aren’t enough.

Without this flock, I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock, I’d be empty. Without the people who started this flock, I’d be dead.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel...

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

If Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticity the first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching.

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever.

I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired...

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we’ll never...

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.