The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch was a weird show.

Here we have three kids and a mom, three other kids and their dad. They live in this big ol' house and get along great for the most part. (Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!) They surely weren't the most normal family.

So what was God thinking when he decided "I shall give each person these other people that they can be related to, and I hope they get along?" Sometimes I have wondered what God must have been thinking. I think we all have had these instances where we are less than satisfied with our families. It happens though right? We are only human, after all.

God gives us the gift of family. That's right, it's a gift. God didn't have to give us anything. HE alone does perfectly well on His own as our Father. Yet God knows that we as humans need that bond that can only come from family. We are made up of bits and pieces of our parents, and they of their parents, all the way back to the creation of man....making us all children of God.

Everyone's family is different. Everyone in that crazy Brady Bunch was different in their own special way. (I always wanted to be Peter) But what brought them together, what brings our families together, is the knowledge that we are all children of God. This unites us all as one family, brothers and sisters in Christ. It gives me the willies just thinking about it! In a good way, of course.

Remember, God gave you a family as a precious gift. Do you treat them as such?