Sibling Love
Though our world is changing there is one thing that should not change and that is the love shared between blood brothers and sisters. In these uncertain times I often hear people say how they don’t like a brother or a sister in their own family. Wow! When I was coming up my dad would not allow my brothers and I to fight. He often told us our job as brothers was to love and protect each other. I grew up in a time where parents didn’t spare the rod to spoil the child! He would tell us he was going to give us boxing gloves and the one that won he was going to spank, and the one that lost he was going to spank so we better knock each other out. My brother and I both knew that was physically impossible so we put aside the thought of fighting.
Oh that isn’t to say that we did not argue or attempt to fight when he wasn’t around, though we knew if we left any visible marks or he found out we would have to do as he suggested.
Later in life I have always remembered what my father said to my brother and I when we were younger.
Often when we are young we can get along in most cases! It is when we start to grow and become our own individual self that we begin to focus on our differences which often seem to divide us. When we were kids it was so much simpler to realize that one liked to watch cartoons and one liked to watch Godzilla. We somehow learned to compromise to try and give each person what they wanted. We somehow accepted the fact that my brother is different than me and that’s okay because he is my brother.
As we grow that becomes more difficult for us to do, just why is that? We have placed an expectation on them because they are our family. If they do something I don’t like it is better for me just to cut them off and not deal with them at all. Or if they say something that I don’t think they should have said it becomes easy to discard them as family often holding a grudge for years. Look at all the time that has been wasted on something trivial.
My favorite scripture says, “When I was a child I spoke as a child, I thought as a child but now that I have become a man I put away childish things.” As we mature our relationship with our siblings should mature. We should no longer think as a child would or even treat our siblings like we are still children. Your family, your brother or sister should always be your first line of support, defense, and love. You should be able to count on your family before you count on anyone else. Whatever differences you might have they should be accepted first of all with love! See, neither one of us have the power to change anyone! What we do have the power to do is love them! It’s just that simple! We often try to make it harder than it is but it is as simple as that!
You should want to be with your siblings and around your siblings as much as possible because life is short! One thing about genuine Love it grows, often setting a great example for friends and other family members to see and to aspire to have in their own families.
It is not only what the world needs now, it is what families need now
“LOVE”
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